DEFRA: Introduces second round of grants to tackle fly tipping
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have announced another round of funding grants to help local authorities in England deliver projects to crack down on fly-tipping.
Grants totalling £775,000 will help twenty-one local authorities with a range of projects which aim to tackle fly tipping. These projects include:
CCTV – portable CCTV cameras to patrol and capture footage across Northumberland Barriers – anti-climb fencing to protect neighbourhood areas in Hyndburn, including community orchards and wildflower meadows.
Better waste infrastructure – larger recycling bins in better locations in Mansfield to make sure the public have access to correct disposal approach.
Councils will have six months to roll out their initiatives, before sharing how this worked in practice and helping other councils to develop similar schemes. The new grants announced today will build on the successes of the first round of projects, which provided £450,000 to 11 councils last year.
The government is also developing a fly-tipping toolkit with the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group, to help spread best practice among local authorities on tackling the issue.
