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Fly Tipping

Volume 400: debated on Tuesday 4 March 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimated total volume of waste she estimates was illegally flytipped in each year since 1992, broken down by the nature of this waste. [99269]

Fly tipped waste is collected by both local authorities and the Environment Agency. Data on the volume of fly tipped waste are not collected centrally and so estimates cannot be provided. However, a recent report looking at fly tipped waste on agricultural land estimated that 0.6 million tonnes of waste was deposited on agricultural land in England and Wales in 2001. This is broken down as follows.

Waste typeGrossed up weights for England and Wales (tonnes)
White goods2,900
Furniture5,600
Green waste94,000
General household waste8,500
C and D waste380,000
Cars118,000
Tyres8,700
Total 20.6 million 2
The Government is currently discussing with the Environment Agency the potential for setting up a national recording system for fly tipping which would record these type of data from both the Agency and local authorities in England.