FIGHTING BACK AGAINST FLY-TIPPING

Annual statistics on fly-tipping incidents from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) released last year make for grim reading. The report shows that fly-tipping incidents remain high with 998,000 reported in 2017/18. Fly-tipping incidents have risen by nearly 40% in the last 5 years. The cost of clearing up sites across the UK has risen significantly too, continuing to burden local authorities and individual taxpayers, diverting funds from other key areas of local government spend.

During 2017-2018 the cost of large fly-tipping incidents was £12.2 million, compared with £9.9 million the year before, that’s an increase of over 23%!