Tipping point

摘要

Antisocial, illegal, environmentally damaging and an unnecessary drain on stretched local authority resources, fly-tipping continues to be a significant waste issue for the UK. According to figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), it costs taxpayers and private landowners an estimated £86m-£l86m every year to investigate and clear up fly-tipping incidents. In 2017/18, local authorities in England dealt with 998,000 fly-tipping incidents, one per cent down from the 1,011,000 incidents reported the previous year, which had been on an upward trend since 2013/14.