A bathroom suite complete with fixtures and fittings has been dumped on the beach in Mumbles.
Visitors to Knab Rock in the village west of Swansea spotted debris over the sand on Wednesday, which on closer inspection proved to be the best part of an entire suite from a bathroom.
It included a bath, its side panelling, a toilet sistern, piping and a towel rail.
Mumbles resident David King was one of those to notice the fly-tipping as he walked past shortly after 8am on Wednesday morning.
This is the law on fly-tipping:
He said: “I often find plastic bottles, fishing line and the like on the sand, and I put those in the bins.
“But I have never seen anything like this dumped there.
“My first thought was how could someone dump these in such a lovely place?
“I reported the fly-tipping to the council”.
Household items such as furniture and bathroom fittings can be legitimately disposed of at the civic amenity site in Llansamlet , while all five of the city’s amenity sites accept smaller items such as metal piping and plastic.
Last year, Swansea Council revealed it had received reports of 1,766 cases of fly-tipping in 2018. The authority carried out 2,213 investigations and five people were prosecuted.
It also handed out 1,346 statutory notices, 369 warning letters and two cases resulted in people being given formal cautions.
The ward with the highest number of incidents was Castle with 208, followed by Morriston with 161; Uplands with 145; and Mynyddbach with 109.
