Fly-tipping

Fly-tipped rubbish and waste is seen beside a road in Colnbrook, near Heathrow, west of London on May 11 2020.

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Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

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2,059 fly-tipping incidents were reported in Dacorum in the year to March 2024 – up from 1,609 the year before.

Dacorum dealing with record number of fly-tipping incidents

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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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

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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!

A ‘disgusted’ mum filmed the horrifying moment when a load of rats scurried out of a filthy alleyway while she was taking her kids to school.

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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'

Last year there were around 10 incidents per 1,000 people in the area.

Record number of fly-tipping incidents in Dacorum last year, figures show

Homeowners could be liable for £50k fine if your neighbour does ‘this’ to your property

Neighbours could land homeowners a £50k fine according to obscure law

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Record level of fly-tipping in Dacorum in 2020-21

Hemel Hempstead woman fined after her household rubbish was fly-tipped

Fly-tipping prevention advice from Countryside Alliance for Hemel residents

Fly-tipping has increased by more than 50 per cent in Hertfordshire

Fly-tipping in Dacorum has increased by almost 17 per cent

Fly-tipping on the Ashridge Estate (C) Buckinghamshire Council

Fly-tipper prosecuted for dumping waste on National Trust beauty spot at Ashridg...

Hertfordshire County Council offices

Increase in fly-tipping recorded across Hertfordshire in past 12 months

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Hertfordshire's 'trailblazing' campaign against fly-tippers sets bar in UK

These are some of the worst cities for fly-tipping in the UK (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the worst cities for illegal and nuisance fly-tipping in the UK

Easter alert over flytipping headache

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