Fly-tipping

Dramatic pictures posted on Facebook posted by Watery Lane resident Elaine Hutchings show the scale of the fly tipping.

'Beyond belief': Outrage over 50ft long fly-tipped waste pile

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Katie Price

Katie Price's Mucky Mansion sells for less than it was bought for

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbish

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Street

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

From left, Brunswick PACT chairman Brian Roberts, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and policing minister Dame Diana Johnson at the Home Office discussing the NationalWorld campaign Silent Crime on November 21, 2024

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledges action on Silent Crime

Watch: Silent Crime - The Untold Story Of Victims documentary

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Annie Valentine is sick of people putting rubbish in the recycling bins.

'It grinds me down...it's not low-level crime when you live with it'

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024.

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

Muktar Singh, 55

Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

Clean Up Britain founder John Read wants more to be done about motorway litter

Rubbish dumped on motorway...what do we pay our council tax for?

Nino Gugliemi, 82, who has run a female hair salon on Wilmslow Road in Manchester for 60 years backs onto the alley ways of where students live and have dumped rubbish after moving out for the summer.

Watch: Fly-tipping students have turned street into a 'dumping ground'

Fly-tipping, man pays over £2,000

A group of masked youths with faces covered on Dawson Street at a derelict property - Blakenall Heath in Walsall, West Midlands.

UK estate branded 'Britain's roughest'

Councils in England recorded more than 1 million fly-tipping incidents last year.

Exclusive Fly-tipping: the councils that are soft on the crime

Illegal fly tipping currently has a maximum penalty of five years in jail and an unlimited fine (Photo: Getty Images)

Labour pledge ‘clean-up squads’ to crackdown on fly-tipping

Waste crime remains a major problem for the Environment Agency and local councils.

‘They are getting away with it’ - probes into dumped waste drop by 30%
Fly-tipping is on the rise across England but investigations into waste crime have collapsed in the last year.
Aimee Stanton

Illegal rubbish dumping soared during the pandemic by 16% year-on-year, new figures show (image: Kim Mogg)

Fly-tipping soared during pandemic but fewer offenders were punished