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Fly Tipping

Combating Fly Tipping

Fly tipping is the illegal dumping of waste. This can be on a road side, the countryside or private land.

The law imposes a duty on people to ensure that our waste is disposed of properly. The law also requires us to make sure that the people who we give our waste to also dispose of it in a proper and safe way. This is called Duty of Care.


The consequences of fly tipping affect us all...

  • As council taxpayers, cleaning up fly-tipping costs us all money
  • It is dangerous and potentially harmful to you and your family's health
  • It spoils our enjoyment of the environment
  • It can cause serious pollution of the environment and endanger wildlife.


If you wish to report fly tipping, please click here


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There is a new initiative to combat fly-tipping this is called Flycapture, this is a national fly-tipping database and is now available for use by Local Authorities and the Environment Agency.

It is a web-based database for England and Wales which will be used to store information of flying tipping incidents on it, to help tackle fly-tipping.

It is one of a number of fly-tip busting measures that have been introduced to meet the requirements of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003.

It is managed on behalf of the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) by the Environment Agency, Flycapture provides much more than just a database - it is a strategic tool that will help authorities to improve intelligence on fly-tipping and focus resources on fly-tip hot spots.

The Environment Agency in 2002 had over 200 successful prosecutions. Fines can be up to £20,000 and/or a prison sentence, for EACH deposit of waste.

If you see someone fly tipping take down the details of the vehicle, waste, locations and anything about the persons involved and either contact your district council or the Environment Agency.

To view the PDF about litter, please click here

Page created: 8 March 2005
Last reviewed: 17 July 2007