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Tipper lorry load fly-tipping clearance costs (6660) Metric type
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- This is the clearance cost for fly-tipping the volume of a tipper lorry load. Fly-tipping statistics are taken from the WasteDataFlow database. Fly-tipping is the illegal deposit of waste on land, contrary to Section 33(1)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Local authorities and the Environment Agency both have a responsibility in respect of illegally deposited waste. This includes local authorities and the Environment Agency collecting and reporting data on fly-tipping in their area, this dataset however, only includes LA collected data. Due to varying levels of estimation between councils and years, some caution is needed in the interpretation of the trends. Direct comparison between local authorities may also not be appropriate as there can be some differences in approach, where there is a level of discretion in using the guidance on reporting. The situation is complex and can be influenced by population density, housing stock, demographics, commuter routes, the rigour with which local authorities identify incidents or encourage the public to report incidents, training of street crews, and increased used of more sophisticated methods for capturing and reporting incidents. Therefore, in assessing the figures local authorities should not be classified as 'good' or 'poor' performers based purely on numbers of fly-tips.
Fly-tipping returns for some local authorities may be missing, incomplete or found to contain errors during Defra's quality assurance process. In these cases, some or all of the annual figures may be unavailable for those local authorities. However, in order to maintain trends over time for the aggregated totals, estimates may be made for these figures that will be included in the published totals, but not made available in the local authority breakdown. For this reason, the England totals may be higher than the sum of regional totals and the sum of individual local authorities.
For the 2019/20 incident data onwards there has also been a change in methodology, whereby the national totals are based on the data as reported by local authorities in "WasteDataFlow" and only include estimates for non-response. Comparisions with earlier years should not be made and are shown for reference.
- Modified
- 17 Oct 2022
- Data last updated
- 12 Mar 2024
- Short label
- Tipper lorry load fly-tipping clearance costs
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Clearance costs
- Dataset
- Fly-tipping incidents and clearance costs
- Collection
- Fly-tipping incidents and actions taken
- Source
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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