A report has concluded that there were 5,797 fly-tipping incidents in Salford between 2022 and 2023.
According to rubbish removal marketplace LoveJunk, these incidents in Salford cost an estimated £828,878 to clear up.
Out of the fly-tip incidents recorded from April 2022 to March 2023 only one person was prosecuted.
Salford City Council sent out a message in December of last year that “fly tipping would not be tolerated in the city.” The council has since increased the amount of prosecutions relating to fly-tipping in Salford.
Cllr Barbara Bentham said: “These prosecutions send out a strong message that fly-tipping will not be tolerated in our city. We are committed to finding and prosecuting those involved and use our CCTV network to identify offenders and bring them to justice.
“It costs Salford City Council over half a million pounds a year to remove and dispose of fly-tipping. This is Salford taxpayers’ money, which could be spent on essential services for Salford people, including vulnerable adults and children needing social care.”
The report also states that last year fly-tipping cost Greater Manchester councils a whopping £5.3m in clear up and enforcement fees. However less than two per cent of fly tippers were prosecuted or paid a penalty fine.
Latest Government fly tipping figures for 2023 show that Greater Manchester suffered 51,276 incidents of illegal dumping. This was a six per cent increase in fly-tipping compared to the previous year, compared to an average one per cent decrease nationally.
According to Jason Mohr, founder of LoveJunk, “Fly-tipping is out of control and the current system of regulation, fines and prosecution doesn’t solve the problem.
“Clearing up and enforcement is expensive, meaning costs to the public are enormous while the chances of fly-tippers actually getting caught and punished are remote.
“The way to stop fly-tipping fast is simply to ban cash payments for all rubbish removal and to require waste collectors to show photo ID and a waste carrier license before a pickup. The Government urgently needs to change the law.”
The report further highlights that only 1.9 per cent of offenders in Greater Manchester paid a fixed penalty notice (statutory fine of up to £1000) or were prosecuted for fly tipping.
Councils in the region issued 2,607 FPNs for fly-tipping but only 675 of these got paid – which is 1.3 per cent of the reported 51,276 fly tips.
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