Response A1346436

Response to request for information

Response date

8 March 2022

Request

Please may you provide me with data on:

• Total number of fly tipping incidents in 2020/2021 and 2022 to date per area under your authority, if possible (per waste type, specifically involving electrical and electronic items)
• Total cost of removal for fly-tipping incidents in 2020/2021 and 2022 (to date, if possible)

Response

2021-22

• Asbestos - 17
• Builders rubble - 133
• Chemical container - 6
• Garden rubbish - 47
• Gas bottles - 3
• General domestic waste - 341
• Household furniture - 173
• Tree - 8
• Tyres - 73
• Vehicle batteries - 1
• White goods - 91
• Other - 244
• Total - 1,137

2020-21

• Animal carcass - 1
• Asbestos - 23
• Builders rubble - 180
• Chemical container - 18
• Garden rubbish - 140
• Gas bottles - 8
• General domestic waste - 493
• Household furniture - 235
• Tree - 6
• Tyres - 111
• Vehicle batteries - 1
• White goods - 147
• Other - 322
• Total - 1,685

When reporting fly tips there is an option to choose from the items stated in the attachment – we would have to go into each individual report to find out exactly what was fly tipped which would exceed the time and cost of compliance.

Please note that the types of waste total and the total fly tips cleared differentiate as the types of waste are pulled from our reporting system which will contain duplicate reports of fly tipping incidents.

We do not record the cost of removal of different types of waste so we have provided an overall figure for the year.