Recent figures show more than 33,000 fly-tipping incidents were recorded in Wales last year, costing councils eye-watering sums to clean up. The costs were highest in Cardiff, where the council spent £309,000 of its budget on clearing illegal waste in 2019-20. Some 70 per cent of what was dumped in Wales last year was household waste, figures show. But there were nearly 200 examples of asbestos being dumped, as well as more than 1,000 fly-tipping incidents each of construction materials, white goods, and green (garden) waste.
Mattresses, bed frames and other household waste dumped illegally in western Newport. Picture: The National The figures also show fly-tipping prosecutions hit a 14-year low in Wales last year.
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Ceredigion records lowest number of fly-tipping incidents in Wales
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