And a senior St Helier official is now calling for the parish to be able to issue fixed-penalty notices to help in the fight against the fly-tippers.
Pieces of a shelving unit and a thick metal lid were found in a car park near Chemin d’Olivet.
The incident is the 16th case of fly-tipping reported to the Environment Department this year, with other items to have been dumped around the Island including windows, doors and garden waste.
Richard Runacres, waste and water management and regulation officer, said that he thought the latest items might have come from a domestic greenhouse and could not understand why they had been dumped there.
‘We got a report from the Love Jersey app about this on Sunday afternoon,’ he said. ‘I do not know why anyone would dump it there.
‘It is really difficult to tell where it has come from.
‘There is a lid with a number on it and it looks like it would probably fit a milk churn.’ He added: ‘I genuinely do not know why someone would dump it here.
‘They can dump it at La Collette at no cost whatsoever. I think they would have had to use a car to do this, so I do not know why they could not just take it to the recycling centre.’
Mr Runacres added that a number of other cases of fly-tipping had been reported recently but he was not aware of those dealt with by parishes and other organisations.
In January it was reported that between 2015 and 2017 14,098 cases of fly-tipping had been recorded in St Helier alone but no one had been prosecuted for the offence for 11 years.
Mr Runacres said: ‘There was a case where a load of bin bags containing green waste was dumped at Grouville Marsh.
‘We managed to trace it back to someone.’
He added that the case was not deemed serious enough to warrant a prosecution and the individual involved was given words of advice.
Meanwhile, Debra d’Orleans, director of Municipal Services for St Helier, said that she wanted her parish to be able to issue fixed-penalty notices for fly-tipping and littering offences.
She said that although the level of fly-tipping within the parish had gone down, they were beginning to see an increase in the illegal dumping of building rubble.
And she added: ‘UK councils have powers to give out fines whenever someone fly-tips or drops litter. We do not have enforcement powers – that is down to the Environment Department.’
Anyone with information about fly-tipping should contact Environmental Protection on 709535 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
