Footage shows the fridge being pushed from the back of a truck onto a residential street, hitting the pavement with an almighty crash.
But local resident Colin Aylward, whose doorbell camera captured the incident outside his home in Dagenham, East London, says this is not the first time such shameless fly-tipping has taken place on his road.
The 52-year-old reported the incident to his local council and police, and workers arrived at the scene around an hour later.
But the video appears to show council workers rolling the fridge from where it had been left lying on its side on the pavement to a patch of grass.
Mr Aylward added that police had since contacted him saying they wouldn’t be investigating the incident any further.
“Both the council and the police don’t want to know,” he said. “People are always dumping stuff here all the time.
“The fridge was dumped at 11:52 last night (Tues, 07/01). I heard a bang and thought it was fireworks.
“They were still out there and I saw them drive off.
“I spoke to my neighbour and she said [the fridge] came from a kebab shop on Roman Road.
“I reported it to police but they said they weren’t going to do anything.
“About one o’clock in the morning, two council workers came – but they just rolled it along.
“They rolled it onto the grass, swept up the glass and left it there.”
The following morning, Mr Aylward’s cameras caught the fridge being loaded into a red van, presumably for scrap metal, by men he compared to the Jawas from Star Wars – creatures who roam planets in search of discarded metals.
Another video from 2020 shows a white van driving down the road as rubbish spills out of its open doors.
Mr Aylward, whose family have lived on the same road for generations, said the area had become much worse in recent years.
“It was lovely in the 80s when I was a kid,” he said. “It has turned into an absolute s******e. It’s just filth. No one cares.”
A Barking and Dagenham council spokesperson said: “Our Incident Response Unit (IRU) were alerted about the fly-tip, via a call to our out-of-hours call centre reporting a large obstruction blocking the road and pavement, at 12.30am.
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“Our IRU Team attended the scene shortly after receiving the call and made the site safe by rolling the large industrial fridge unit from the road and pavement to a safe position onto the grass and also swept away the glass.
“The call-out team attended these incidents with a smaller vehicle and would not be able to collect and remove something as large as a fridge, but they did contact our street cleansing service to remove the fly tip the following working day.
“This team have the appropriate hydraulic lift vehicles to dispose of large items, such as this fridge”.
