Fly-Tipping 2016/2017 - A growing problem

December 2017

The Statistics

In England alone, local authorities, between April 2016 and March 2017 dealt with around 1 Million (1,002,000) fly-tipping incidents.  This was a 7% increase from 2015/2016.

This is the fourth year in a row fly-tipping incidents have increase and two thirds of the waste Fly-tipped was household waste.  

The most common place for fly-tipping is highways.  The number of highway incidents have increase by 4% from the previous year.

Local authorities carried out 474,000 enforcements actions, costing around £16 million, a decrease of 20,000 actions and £0.9 million in cost from 2015/2016.

Fly-tipping in 2016/2017 has cost the tax payer almost £58 million to clean up.  

Impact of Fly-Tipping

Fly-tipping is a significant harm to the environment, a pollutions and a danger to public health and wildlife.  It undermines waste businesses where fly-tipping offenders undermining those companies who operate within the law.

Penalties for Fly-Tipping

It's now a criminal offence with a fine of up to £50,000 or 12 months in prison, if convicted in a Magistrates Court or an unlimited fine and up to 5 years in prison if convicted in a Crown Court.

Local authorities also have the power to issue an on the spot fine between £150 and £400 for small scale fly-tipping.

What Vision Waste can do for you?

We as a company work along side many local authorities and other businesses trying to resolve the fly-tipping issues throughout the UK and we will continue to do this!  We will tackle each fly-tip waste clearance one by one.

• Do not dispose of waste illegally.

• Ensure that your own business waste is dispose of correctly.  

• If you have any excess waste, call in the experts to remove this for you

• Ensure any company collecting waste is a registered waste carrier, broker or dealer.

• Check with your local authorities for locations of your recycling centres

• Report any fly-tipping