Tougher fines needed to crack down on fly-tipping – CLA August 3, 2021 Rural Life The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), together with over 150 local authorities and 10 professional bodies, is calling on the sentencing council…
Bristol fly-tipper with fake name caught by investigation June 30, 2021 Rural Life A Bristol man has been prosecuted for fly-tipping waste in Avonmouth by the Environment Agency after being caught on CCTV. Owen Crumlish, 41,…
Calls for ‘urgent action’ to deter rural fly-tippers June 18, 2021 Rural Life The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for urgent action to tackle fly-tipping, as new figures from the Environment Agency show farmers are…
Just 22.5% of NI waste crime fines reinvested in fighting illegal dumping March 22, 2021 N.Ireland Less than a quarter of fines paid to the Department of Agriculture for waste crimes such as fly-tipping are reinvested in cracking down…
‘Alarming’ fly-tipping figures are ‘just the tip of the iceberg’ – CLA February 26, 2021 Rural Life Incidents of fly-tipping on public land have increased by 2% across England in 2019/2020, according to new figures released by the Department of…
NFU Scotland and SLE call for urgent action to be taken on fly-tipping January 28, 2021 Rural Life Small businesses and farmers are calling for urgent action on fly-tipping. That was the message from NFU Scotland (NFUS) and Scottish Land and…
Farmer to fly-tippers: ‘I’m going to bring a load of buffalo dung and tip it in your shop’ October 28, 2020 Rural Life Well-known buffalo farmer and butcher Steven Mitchell, best known for his business ‘The Buffalo Farm’, has taken to social media to call out…
2t of rotting meat dumped in the countryside by fly-tippers October 2, 2020 Rural Life Police in Dorset have launched an investigation after bags of rotting meat were found dumped on land in the villages of East Stoke…
Rural bodies calls for Scottish government to clamp down on fly-tipping August 16, 2020 Environment Two of Scotland’s rural bodies have joined forces to write to Holyrood calling for a series of measures to stave off fly-tipping and…
Calf choked to death on litter in Scotland as lockdown sees fly-tipping soar April 27, 2020 Rural Life More than 100 fly-tipping incidents are thought to have occurred across Scotland since the start of the lockdown amid reports calf in West…
Farmers report surge in fly-tipping incidents as lockdown sees dumps closed April 12, 2020 Rural Life Rural areas around the UK have seen a dramatic increase in fly-tipping over the last number of weeks, with many households seeing the…
