According to a recent investigation by the BBC's Panorama, Local Councils recorded 2.6 million examples of fly-tipping, costing tax payers over £120'000'000 last year alone!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hiprogrammes/panorama/7543554.stm 


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Always ensure that your waste carrier is licensed by the Environment Agency. 

This can be done with one simple phone call.

Cousins Clearance is always happy to present our certification of registration where requested.  With both the Envirionmental Agency and Local Authorties increasingly using "smart water" technology to track and trace the origin of waste, you cannot afford for your rubbish to be flytipped.

Where fly-tipped rubbish is tracked back, Householders are responsible for paying disposal costs and sometimes fines/penalties.  Always ensure that your waste carrier is registered.

Please see excert from the DEFRA website below:

6. What are considered to be "reasonable measures" to comply with the duty of care?

It will be up to the courts to decide what constitutes reasonable measures, although householders are encouraged to make a simple check with the Environment Agency in order to ascertain if the person that they are passing their waste to is a registered waste carrier.

7. What are the penalties for non-compliance with the household duty of care?

If fly-tipped waste is traced back to a particular household, the householders could be fined up to £5000.

However, the ultimate aim is not to fine people, but to ensure that they use registered waste carriers.

Cousins Clearance: Licensed by the Environment Agency