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    Fly-tipping on the up in Bradford

    Monday, 8 February 2016 17:30

    Incidents have increased by 17% in 12 months according to Bradford Council

    There were 10,439 incidents of fly-tipping in 2014/15 compared to 8,867 in the previous 12-month period.

    Railway tracks across the district are a target for fly-tippers, despite a clean-up operation costing £40,000 in which 80 tonnes of waste was cl;eared up last year.

    Trackside embankments on routes into Bradford Interchange and Bradford Forster Square and Shipley are quite often covered in waste.

    A Bradford Council spokesman said: 

    "Fly-tipping is illegal as well as anti-social. That's why we do our best to find evidence to prosecute the criminals who do it.

    "Our Environmental Enforcement Team use all possible means of gathering evidence including searching the waste and speaking to any eye witnesses to enable prosecution of perpetrators.

    "If rubbish is tipped on council land we clean it up as soon as possible and we try to ensure private land-owners do the same."

     

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