Illegal dumping at Marsh Folly is making a dirty and dangerous job even worse for staff — prompting one irate worker to call for the public to show more consideration.

“We need to have cameras installed down here — this is all stuff that’s supposed to go down Tynes Bay, not here,” said Public Works contractor Vincent Tuzo, pointing out bike parts, a broken fan and assorted plastic waste tipped at the drop-off reserved for horticultural waste.

“We get dead cats, dogs, rotten meat, horse manure — I challenge anybody to come down here and work with this stuff for a day. The smell alone makes you sick.”

The site, just off Marsh Folly Road, is open to the public, with a single camera overlooking the main entrance.

“Government said they’d charge people a $10,000 fine, and they’re supposed to have cameras watching it, but nothing has been done,” Mr Tuzo said, referring to a statement issued in January in response to complaints from workers at the site.

Dumping of rubble, metal and household waste has been blamed for damaging equipment as well as injuring workers.

“People don’t realise that a human being has got to come behind and clean it all up,” said Mr Tuzo, who has worked in various Government departments for more than 50 years.

In addition, plant waste should be removed from bags — but the drop-off was piled with more than a dozen plastic bags, which staff have to remove.

Asked by The Royal Gazette why dump users eschewed the one-mile journey farther to the Tynes Bay facility, Mr Tuzo said: “They just drop it here to make it easier on themselves. This place is open 24 hours a day. They just drop whatever they want and they’re gone.”

Along with bringing stiffer fines, Government has vowed to install hidden cameras at the Island’s notorious “dumping hot spots”. No details on the tougher penalties were provided by press time last night.