![]() ![]() The officer had started a project in which garages marked their waste tyres with postcodes, the theory being that garages would be less likely to use illegal waste handlers as a result, but this hadn’t proved successful. In 2021, a West Mercia rural and business crime officer found that the rural community was becoming increasingly frustrated with police and partners for seemingly not taking fly-tipping seriously. Local authorities and the Environment Agency have a range of enforcement tactics to tackle this problem, so why did West Mercia Police become involved in a project to reduce fly-tipping? Higher numbers of fly-tipping may be partly due to tyres no longer being accepted at landfill and the cost of tyre disposal has roughly doubled since 2006. This is likely to be an underestimate because of low reporting levels and issues with recording. ![]() ![]() The UK produces 55 million waste tyres every year, 15,000 of these are dumped illegally according to official statistics from 2020/21 (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), 2023). Tyres are expensive to dispose of and often form a significant portion of all waste that is dumped. It is unsightly, sometimes dangerous and costly to clear up. Fly-tipping is a major problem for both rural and urban communities. ![]()
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