Sixteen tons of bulky waste was hauled away by KBB volunteers working in the Somerset area this weekend as such, community's political representative plans to make it "uncomfortable" to litter.

The entire project cost over $2,000 to complete, as an excavation service was needed to carry away the overload of waste.

Sandys North representative Michael Scott who joined in the clean up described Lodge Point Lane's deplorable conditions as "appalling".

"Dumping waste indiscriminately in Bermuda's pristine lands does two things," Mr. Scott said. "It desecrates otherwise beautiful open spaces and generates the need for a cleanup requiring major expenditure of human and other energies, often back breaking, and the use of public funds."

Andrew Dias of Wedco said the organisation has already spent between $30,000 and $60,000 cleaning up after the trucks that dump in this area.

The spreading pile of waste metal, builders' rubble, bathroom equipment, toilets, mattresses, sofas, computers, Televisions, scrap wood, and clothing, was gradually sorted and loaded into trucks for transport to the airport and Tynes Bay.

In the surrounding area, volunteers harvested bottles and trash discarded in the bushes and long grass.

Forty-six bags of recyclables were bagged and trucked to the Recycling Plant. The miscellaneous trash went out with the plastic, carpet, sofas and other items suitable for incineration.

"[This] is a cycle that we do not find acceptable and which should not be allowed to continue," added Mr. Scott "We must as a country implement either policy or change laws to make it most uncomfortable for anyone to perpetrate such desecration."

He added: "In looking at the law profile devoted to dumping, I note that no direct legislation targeting waste dumping in open spaces leaps out of the list of laws.

"Changes on this front and further investigation into the policy to combat dumping is no doubt needed. It is a matter that I have been asked to champion and investigate and change and I intend to commence this process."

The morning ended with sandwiches, fruit and water for the KBB volunteers and the men of Works and Engineering as Lodge Point Lane settled back into its former pastoral peace, awaiting the picnickers, campers and fishermen who go there to enjoy a little piece of unspoilt Bermuda.

The gate allowing access to the area was subsequently padlocked to prevent further incursions by truckers.