Overview

• April reforms doubled on-the-spot duty-of-care fines from £300 to £600 and raised the maximum fly-tipping penalty to £1,000
• Oxford Magistrates’ Court ordered Lorna Swift to pay £820 after she failed to settle a £400 fixed penalty for dumping household waste in October
• Tyler Marie Richards was fined £423.51 by Rhondda Cynon Taf council when 20 bags of her rubbish were found dumped in Tonypandy
• North Warwickshire council fined a Birmingham householder £600 after waste she paid a “man with a van” to remove was left on Fillongley Road
• Councils report that illegal dumping cleanup costs run into hundreds of thousands of pounds each year, straining local budgets for frontline services