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Fly-tipping figures 'tip of Iceberg' says CLA The Country Land & Business Association (CLA) has said that fly-tipping figures released by the Government today are a gross underestimation of the scale of this crime - particularly in rural areas where rubbish is fly-tipped on farms and beauty-spots.
Figures from Flycapture, the national fly-tipping database produced by DEFRA and the Environment Agency, shows that rubbish is illegally dumped somewhere in the UK every 35 seconds, costing local authorities almost £100 a minute in clean-up costs. "The Government figures shine a welcome spotlight on this pervasive and polluting crime. However, the situation is worse than even these dreadful statistics suggests," says Mark Hudson CLA President, "since the Flycapture database does not include incidents that are dealt with by private landowners." "Cleaning up waste, particularly hazardous materials such as asbestos, costs landowners thousands of pounds each year. A CLA survey of members in 2004 found that a third of respondents experienced fly-tipping on a weekly basis. All respondents said they lived near a local authority waste site and were effectively paying to clean up waste that was being illegally dumped on their land by people who either wanted to avoid paying charges at the waste site or had arrived to find it the site closed,"continued Mark Hudson. John Homfray, whose farm is in the M4 corridor, also believes that charges for small builders at licensed dumps encourages fly-tipping: "We have quiet lanes running through our property which are constantly suffering dumping in gateways. You get old kitchen carcasses, bathroom suites and structural waste. It's so wearying and it's the sort of thing people would have to pay to dump." The CLA has welcomed the provisions in the Government's Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill, currently before Parliament, that will allow barriers across rights of way to prevent fly-tipping and other crimes. However, there are no provisions in the Bill requiring either local authorities or the Environment Agency to deal with fly-tipped material on private land. Mark Hudson concluded, "Until we have figures indicating the fly-tipping incidents on all land - private and public - the true scale of fly-tipping will never be ascertained and the necessary resources to deal with the problem will never be allocated. Comprehensive figures are needed for formulating informed policies on how to deal with the growing problem to society of fly-tipping and how the landfill tax and other measures introduced by Government may actually be fueling the fly-tipping business." 2 March 2005 |
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