Thousands for councils across East Midlands to tackle flytipping
Over four thousand were served with fixed penalty notices for carrying out this offence
The Government's pumping £775k into helping councils in Peterborough, Stamford and Rutland, and across the country, tackle fly-tipping.
Official stats shows there were over 79 thousand recorded incidents of fly-tipping across the East, between 2021 and 2022.
They also show over four thousand were served with fixed penalty notices for carrying out this offence- the fifth lowest amount out of any region in England.
"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.