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Households could be fined up to £400 over rubbish disposal

Households could be fined up to £400 if their waste is fly-tipped – even if they don’t do it themselves.
The Welsh Assembly are expected to approve proposals to make it easier for local councils to penalize those who dump waste illegally.
Some illegal fly-tipping occurs when people allow unofficial waste disposers to take away rubbish from their home in good faith.
This photograph of an abandoned mattress was sent to CJS by Rubicon Dance, a community dance centre in Adamsdown that says fly-tipping is a daily issue for them.

A change of the current rules could hold those residents accountable for what happens to their waste afterwards.
Current council rule fine only those who are caught fly-tipping themselves.
A recent report by the Welsh Government found that more than 60% of fly-tipping incidents stemmed from domestic properties.
Between 2017 and 2018, fly-tipping cost the Welsh taxpayer £2m. More than 35, 000 incidents of fly-tipping were reported in the last year.


Keep Wales Tidy say: “People are aware of the fly-tipping problem and are reporting it, and there is a lot of community engagement from people who want to stamp it out”