A video has captured the moment an angry farmer returns bags of rubbish to a councillor whose name was found inside the bin bags - but who insists he's not the fly-tipper.
Clive Bailye says the waste was dumped in one of his fields in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
The 49-year-old farmer, who's had to deal with numerous fly-tipping incidents over the years, decided to look through the bags and soon discovered letters addressed to Cllr Tom Loughbrough-Rudd.
Video footage shows Clive returning the three bags of rubbish back to the property in the address, which is just half-a-mile from his farm.
Cllr Loughborough-Rudd, an independent who sits on Staffordshire County Council, has since denied dumping the rubbish and says it belongs to his ex-partner who paid someone to dispose of the waste.
Clive is heard telling him: "We're bringing the rubbish back which was left in the field and dumped up the road.
"It's got your name and address in there so we've brought it all back. It's all yours.
Clive, who runs TWB Farms, said: "One one of our guys who works for me found the rubbish and brought it back to me.
"It's very stupid. The bag was full of sim cards, it was full of pay as go sim cards. Which is odd.
"We get a load of fly-tipping. We try to identify who it was as people leave their letters with the address on in the rubbish.
"The council and the police don't care. The address was one next to the field, so we took it to them.
"We've had another incident a day after this one where we had a whole Transit vans worth tipped on our driveway. We have to clear it up ourselves, we have to get a skip to dispose of it. We had a whole sailing boat dumped on our land once.
"Farmers up and down the country are sort of becoming the unpaid binmen of the country."
Cllr Loughborough-Rudd, meanwhile, said: "I did not fly-tip the rubbish.
"My ex-partner paid someone to dispose of some rubbish but it was dumped in a field.
"It had a letter addressed to me from a mobile phone company which was the sim I gave to my partner at the time we were together from February, which means it must have been there for some time, and other stuff from members of that household that I shall not disclose.
"I happened to be at my ex-partner's home collecting some belongings when the farmer arrived.
"I have explained this to him."
