Drohnen finden „in wenigen Minuten“ verstreuten Müll
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20p8yzg9mo
Von FredH3663
Drohnen finden „in wenigen Minuten“ verstreuten Müll
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20p8yzg9mo
Von FredH3663
12 Kommentare
Cool, we’ve located the rubbish… now what about the offending parties?
Now we just need stiff penalties for the guilty to make it uneconomical to do it.
Make the punishment for fly tipping be the cost per year to clear up, divided by the people caught doing it.
Great they can find stuff faster. Unless we have to police to do anything about it all we’re doing is improving the states ability to surveille us all. We need more police officers.
Would rather read ‚drone finding fly tippers in minutes and dropping explosives on their heads‘
It’s good it’s being found, but I’m concerned about the amount of people eager to have drones spying for fly tipp*ers*. Not sure it’s worth having even more constant surveillance for.
You can spot fly tipping on Google Earth. I did work for a county council a few years ago, mainly focused on mapping gravel quarries and seeing if they were active or not. During the early 2000s building boom, many unlicensed gravel pits were opened, most since closed. Council wanted them mapped, see if they was signs they were active or abandoned. Google satellite imagery was also high resolution enough to spot fly tipping, mostly piles of old tyres, which I mapped. One quarry was turned into a race track for scramblers. Essentially, you’d easily spot a large amount of fly tipped waste on Google Earth, which is updated every few months.
Until the government comes up with sensible ways to get rid of building waste, I fear this is a losing battle.
Back in the day, small builders could get away with taking small amounts of crap to the local tip, even if not technically legal, no one gave a shit.
These days you need to be a licensed carrier and take it to commercial tips that are often miles away, or, more often, pay someone else a fortune to take it away. It’s not surprising that there are cheaper, less scrupulous operators out there.
It would probably be cheaper for councils to go back to the old system.
Finding them is not hard, is getting a court to enable persecution that takes half a year
Fly tippers causing perma 1984 drones sounds like the most obvious 2026 bingo slot so far…
It’s insanely easy to find tipped waste, but nobody does anything. The article exists solely to try and push public perception on drone usage being acceptable if the government do it.
I know that it might be opposed strongly but I personally feel like using drones as support for enforcement is an efficiency that this country needs, given our constrained budgets, limited police time and the fact that parts of these jobs could be done remotely (e.g. processing or verifying footage, maybe even some of the drone control?).