Dozens of green bin bags, building waste and an old barbeque has been dumped at a beauty spot in Flintshire.
Rhys Davies, from New Brighton, took a video of the illegally dumped waste he discovered on Altami Road, near Buckley.
He said: "I took the footage (last week) and it looked that it had been recently dumped, as the cardboard looked dry.
"There so much of it and I just felt sad to be honest when I saw it. I love the outdoors, and everybody has got a lot of rubbish at the minute, as we’re all doing DIY.
"I have a pile in the garden waiting for the tip to open it’s just sad people can’t see what they're actually doing."
He continued: "I can’t speak for the rest of Wales but since lockdown, I’ve been walking my dog regularly and the amount of litter, discarded gloves and so on seems to be worse."
Rhys, 27, who works as a plasterer, describes the area where the waste has been dumped as a pleasant lane, and is "relatively quiet" in terms of people walking by.
Since the lockdown reported instances of fly-tipping has increased by 88% in Wales as a whole according to App ClearWaste, as tips across the country has closed.
Fly-Tipping Action Wales said there had been a rise in rubbish collection services advertised on social media and it's up to people to make sure they only use registered waste carriers - or they could face a possible fine.
Many garden waste schemes have also come to a standstill, at a time when more people are spending more time in the garden and doing DIY.
Flintshire County Council has announced garden waste will be collected over a two week period only - starting this week, but only as an interim service.
Their statement said: "Our scheduled garden waste collection service was suspended so that all available crews could concentrate on collecting black bins, food waste and recycling as normal.
Care home deaths in North Wales
- One in seven Covid-19 deaths in North Wales has been in a care home, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
- Its figures have begun to give a better indication of the true scale of the outbreak’s impact.
- They show that, across North Wales, Covid-19 is mentioned on 65 death certificates that were registered by April 18.
- Most (52) deaths were in hospitals, but nine (13.8%) were in care homes.
- There were also four deaths recorded at home.
- Gwynedd saw the biggest proportion of care home deaths, with five out of 15, or 33.3%.
- Overall, Covid-19 was a factor in 2.7% of deaths that occurred across North Wales up to April 10.
- In Flintshire the figure stood at 5.1% of deaths (or 25 out of 487).
"There is strong public demand for some resumption of service. We will be collecting garden waste for the two week period between Monday, May 11 to Saturday, May 23 for all households that have already subscribed for the 2020 season- and have a yellow tag attached to their brown bin.
" Or whom have subscribed for the service last year - and have a 2019 sticker displayed on their brown bin."
