Thousands for councils in Bucks, Beds and Herts to tackle fly-tipping
Over 19 thousand were served with fixed penalty notices for carrying out this offence.
Last updated 8th Apr 2023
The Government's pumping £775k into helping councils in Bucks, Beds and Herts and across the country to tackle fly-tipping.
Official stats shows there were over 178 thousand recorded incidents of fly-tipping across the East and South East, between 2021 and 2022
While over 19 thousand were served with fixed penalty notices for carrying out this offence across the two regions.
The projects funded in the first round included building new community gardens in fly-tipping hotspots in Thanet and CCTV with automatic number-plate recognition in Buckinghamshire.
"You could see it was doing damage to the environment"
Gary Champion is a green party councillor- and member of the 'Friends of the Earth' group:
"People feel that they can fly-tip without any consquence. There needs to be incentive, if there's nothing stopping you from doing this- and that there's going to be no comeback it's just going to go on and on.
"One of the big route causes is the cost of living crisis. If the council were to get rid of the bulky waste charge, this would go a long way to disincentive people from fly-tipping. There is a lot of things that the council could do with new money it's just ensuring that it's spent with the most effect.
"Recently we did a river clean event and there were some significant large pieces of fly tipping which were by the river and you could see it was doing damage to the environment. It causing damage with birding and them not being able to nest".
What has the Government said about this?
The government say funding will be given out to local authorities, so they can better tackle this issue