A BATH and other rubbish dumped just yards from Farnham’s community recycling centre in Guildford Road has sparked fresh criticism of Surrey County Council’s decision to introduce charges for disposing some waste.

Paul Parker-Nash spotted the fly-tipped waste in the Guildford Road Trading Estate and Tweeted pictures to the county council with the message: “This is what happens when you start charging silly money at waste amenities.”

In a subsequent Tweet addressed to @SurreyCouncil, he added: “This is 400 yards from the local council waste/recycling facility. You’ve lost revenue and added to the taxpayers burden by being too greedy.”

It comes after Surrey introduced new charges for disposing ‘non-household’ waste at recycling centres across the county, ranging from £4 for a 50cm x 77cm bag of building waste such as bricks, rubble and plasterboard to £5 per tyre or £50 for a car load of ‘loose materials’.

A Freedom of Information request by The Herald subsequently revealed a 40 per cent rise in fly-tipping across Waverley borough between last September - when Surrey introduced the charges - and November, compared to the same three-month period 12 months earlier.

But despite this, Surrey has remained steadfast that countywide fly-tipping has actually decreased since the introduction of the controversial charges.