BBC reports that ‘A fly-tipper has been ordered to pay a fine of £2,000 and costs of a further £2,000 for leaving garden waste in a lane near Plymouth.
Councillor Victor Abbott, the council’s lead on community services, said: “I hope this successful prosecution sends a strong message out to anyone tempted to illegally dump their waste that we will take action.”
‘In the past ten years our surveyors have walked 1,140 miles across England assessing the litter on our streets: where it is, what it is, and how much of it there is.’
This new report published by Keep Britain Tidy ‘exposes the alarming scale of England’s litter crisis and its disproportionate impact on the nations most deprived communities’
The report also identifies ‘overwhelming public support for prevention measures to tackle the problem, including anti-littering campaigns’ and the positive steps being taken by Government to reduce the amount of litter dropped.
‘The Government has today (Monday 27 January) pledged to end the throwaway society and clean up Britain, as it implements legislation for the deposit return scheme for drinks containers in England and Northern Ireland.
Once the scheme launches in October 2027, consumers will have a financial incentive to return empty containers to a collection point, such as at their local supermarket, so that the bottle or can will be recycled.
Used in more than 50 countries worldwide as a common-sense means of encouraging people to recycle more single-use bottles and cans, a DRS sees people being paid back for returning the container.’
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‘Three men were arrested near Peterborough on 21 January, as part of an investigation into large-scale, organised deposits of waste across counties including Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
Waste criminals have been known to dump bales of waste in rural locations to conceal them as farming bales. We are appealing to landowners, businesses, and members of the public to report any plastic-wrapped bales they see in suspicious places, which are unlikely to be silage or hay stored by farmers or equestrian facilities.’
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The BBC reports that ‘a local activist is to represent Great Britain in an international plogging event, which involves picking up litter while jogging.
The environmental and fitness trend, which originated in Sweden in 2016, has since grown in popularity in other countries, including the UK.
“It’s a brilliant way of looking after your physical and mental health and keeping active; meeting like-minded individuals at the same time as having a positive impact on your local community and also the planet,”