Issue - meetings

To review the impact of changes to Surrey County Council’s waste services on fly tipping in the Borough.

The Group Head of Neighbourhood Services presented a report to the Committee on fly tipping.  The report explained where responsibility lay for the collection and disposal of waste and recycling materials, the management of fly tipping and provided statistics for the period 2016 to 2018.

In 2016, Surrey County Council introduced charges at recycling centres for residents dumping more than one bag of chargeable waste and no longer accepted trade waste at the Charlton Lane site.  Whilst there was no direct evidence to suggest that the charges had directly resulted in the number of fly tips and other factors, such as improved reporting and awareness campaigns needed to be taken into consideration; there had been a significant increase in reported instances of fly tipping since 2016.  The data was as follows:

Members were concerned at the increase in fly tipping and a number of questions were asked about the use of CCTV, where responsibility for costs lay, and the different type of waste that was dumped.  The Group Head of Neighbourhood Services agreed to investigate the possibility of general categorisation of types of fly tipping.

Resolved to note the report.