A tsunami of fly tipping swept through the North during the pandemic with a huge spike in cases.
Almost 310,000 cases were recorded by councils across the North in 2020-21, according to latest figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This means around 35 incidents of fly tipping happened every hour, up 15% from 2019-20.
The latest episode of podcast The North in Numbers explores the scourge in illegally-dumped rubbish. Eddie Edwards, who moved into his house in Moss Side, Manchester, in 2019 told Annie Gouk on the podcast: “It was unbelievable the amount of trash that was there – anything and everything that could be chucked out the house was piling up, and it would just keep on happening.
