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Just 34 out of 134,000 fly-tipping incidents reported to prosecutors – Lib Dems

More than 134,000 fly-tipping incidents were recorded by councils in two years but only 34 were reported to prosecutors, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. The party claims this has effectively “legalised littering”, as it called for councils ...

07 Jan 2022 at 01:25

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New laws allow CCTV to tackle fly tipping - Kilkenny TD

Green Party Councillor Maria Dollard has welcomed the news that Kilkenny County Council will soon be given powers to use CCTV and other technologies to tackle illegal dumping and littering, while also ensuring that there are robust data protection ...

07 Apr 2022 at 11:33

Scotland

Just 51 fly-tippers referred to prosecutors despite 284,762 reports

Just 51 fly-tipping cases were sent to prosecutors despite almost 300,000 incidents being reported since 2019-20. The Scottish Liberal Democrats have released figures obtained through freedom of information requests in a bid to urge ministers to ...

13 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Council appeals for help to trace fly-tippers who cut off homes and businesses

A local authority is seeking video evidence to track down fly-tippers who dumped a huge mound of building waste stretching more than 40ft along a two-lane road, blocking access to homes and businesses. Contractors began work to remove the ...

21 Jan 2025 at 10:59

Man and business charged over 27-tonne mound of waste that blocked road

A man and a business have been charged over a fly-tipping incident where a mound of waste weighing more than 27 tonnes cut off access to homes and businesses. The pile of waste, measuring over 20-metres-long and two metres high, was ...

19 May 2025 at 15:11

Scotland

Fly-tippers escape penalty for dumping rubbish most of the time, data suggests

Fly-tippers escape any penalty for illegally dumping their rubbish in Scotland almost 99% of the time, new freedom of information data suggests. There were 207,960 reports of rubbish being dumped between 2019/20 and 2021/22, but ...

28 Dec 2022 at 07:08

Two tipper trucks believed to be involved in fly-tipping 10ft-high waste mound

Council officers investigating the dumping of a 30-tonne mound of waste on a country road have appealed for dashcam footage of two tipper-type lorries caught on CCTV in the area. Lichfield District Council believes the building ...

22 Jan 2025 at 10:45

Operation to clean up 30,000 tonnes of waste dumped in woods gets under way

Clean-up workers with lorries have begun the task of removing a huge amount of harmful waste which was dumped illegally in woods in Kent. The operation, co-ordinated by the Environment Agency, will see 30,000 tonnes of ...

26 Jun 2025 at 10:47

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