And that is great news for every right-minded resident from Todmorden to Hipperholme and Savile Park to Siddal.

Every evening this week the Courier has shown how Calderdale is increasingly blighted by mountains of waste including chemical containers, car tyres, mattresses and domestic appliances.

We have named the district's 10 worst affected areas, revealed how the fly tipping cycle begins and the deviousness with which the law is broken. Our findings are a stinging indictment of a section of society who simply do not give a damn.

For too long, however, the general public has been ambivalent.
A "not in my back yard" mentality exists.

But this is all our back yards because the image it portrays reflects on everyone.

Dave Dunbar is charged with pursuing cases of fly-tipping, in some instances all the way to the courts, where it should be noted offenders can be fined up to £50,000 or be imprisoned for up to five years. He is now looking at the greater use of security cameras both overt and covert to catch people. A hotline also exists to help bring people to book.

Last year it cost Calderdale Council £107,000 to clear up illegal dumps.

There were 30 fines for discarding domestic rubbish, 23 for commercial waste and 609 fines for littering.

Those hit rates are about to get higher.

A warning to this group of lazy, arrogant and selfish people that the game is up and in future, like everyone else, they will have to join the queue at the local tip.