Large-Scale Fly-Tipping On the Rise

Councils throughout the UK are reporting record costs to taxpayers incurred for cleaning up incidents of illegal fly-tipping. Many are reporting that major fly-tipping offences have increased due to organised criminal gangs but the Government has suggested that the apparent increase could be down to better recording of offences. But it has been pointed out that criminal gangs are taking advantage of regulatory failings in the waste-disposal industry. They are setting up fake waste-disposal businesses, hiring buildings and land where they dump waste and then abscond, leaving landowners and local authorities with huge clean-up bills.

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