Farm groups have demanded tougher action to stop waste being illegally dumped in the countryside, after new figures revealed a surge in fly-tipping incidents in England during the coronavirus pandemic, but a fall in the number of prosecutions. Councils dealt with 1.13 million fly-tipping incidents from April 2020 to March 2021, an increase of 16% […]
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