Hillingdon Council is posting CCTV images online of people it says are illegally dumping rubbish, in a bid to shame offenders and cut fly tipping in west London.
01Summary
- 01Hillingdon Council said its CCTV posts had more than 850,000 views and 2,500 comments since being shared earlier this week.
- 02The council said some comments included information on who the alleged perpetrators might be.
- 03Cabinet member Adam Bennett said the borough had allowed the fly-tipping problem to get bigger and needed to increase enforcement.
- 04The council issues a £1,000 fixed penalty fine for fly tipping and said it seized and crushed a vehicle linked to the offence last month.
- 05Gareth Roberts said there were nearly half a million fly-tipping incidents across London last year.
02Why it matters
The council's approach shows one way local authorities are trying to deter illegal dumping and identify suspects. Fly tipping costs councils and taxpayers money to clear up, and London leaders say the scale of the problem is large.
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