Thousands for councils across East of England to tackle fly-tipping
Over 13 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 across the East of England and nationwide across the country to tackle fly-tipping.
They also show over 13 thousand were served with fixed penalty notices for carrying out this offence- the second highest amount out of any region in England.
Councils will have six months to roll out their initiatives, before sharing how this worked in practice and helping other councils to develop similar schemes.
The new grants announced today will build on the of the first round of projects, which provided £450,000 to 11 councils last year.
"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 consequence. 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.