FLY-tipping is on the rise in Somerset due to the coronavirus pandemic, waste bosses have admitted. Somerset Waste Partnership recorded a sharp increase in fly-tipping in late-2020 compared to the same period 12 months previously. Figures show the rates in Mendip more than doubled, with large amounts of black bin waste dumped across the county. SWP said it had “little control or influence” over fly-tipping levels, but was working with its partners to try to reduce the number of incidents. Details of cases incidents were published before a meeting of the partnership s joint scrutiny panel on Wednesday (February 10). In the last three months of 2020, the total number of fly-tipping incidents across Somerset was 1,191 - compared to 824 in the same period in 2019.
Somerset sees further rise in fly-tipping as a result of the coronavirus pandemic
One part of Somerset saw fly-tipping incidents more than double compared to the previous year
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The scene of the fly-tipping near Frome
Fly-tipping levels in Somerset are continuing to rise as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, waste bosses have admitted.
The Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) has recorded a sharp rise in fly-tipping in late-2020 compared to the same period 12 months ago.
The figures released show fly-tipping rates in Mendip more than doubling, with large amounts of black bin waste being dumped across the county.