Share your fly-tipping story with The CLA
The battle against fly-tipping continues. Have you been a victim?
In the next few weeks, Defra is expected to release the latest figures for fly-tipping incidents in England.
Last year’s figures revealed that once again the number of reported incidents of fly-tipping across the region had increased.
However, whilst the countryside is buried under a mountain of waste, these figures barely scratch the surface of a crime that is a blight on the rural community. This is because the figures only cover incidents on public land.
Fly tipping is not a victimless crime: two thirds of all farmers and landowners have at some stage been a victim, on average paying £1,000 to remove the waste. In some cases farmers have paid up to £100,000 to clear up other people’s mess or risk facing prosecution themselves.
True impact of fly-tipping
The CLA is keen to highlight the true cost and distress that is caused to farmers and landowners when waste is dumped on private property.
To help us provide examples of fly-tipping on private land to the media we are asking that members who have experienced the crime, and would be happy to speak to the media about the incidents, to contact CLA South West Communications Manager Sarah Wells-Gaston by email.
Photographs of recent incidents would also be beneficial so we can demonstrate the scale of the problem.