Alleged fraud at Bristol Waste’s Avonmouth tip is under police investigation. The city council and its waste company are cooperating with inquiries and have handed over evidence to detectives.
Councillors were told on Friday, March 3, that Avon & Somerset Police were probing the allegations, which date back to 2020. Bristol Waste says it took immediate action and introduced “new measures to ensure security” at the depot in Kings Weston Lane after the suspected corruption was reported.
The investigation, which has been confirmed by the constabulary, was announced at a council meeting where members were scrutinising the arms-length company’s business plan. It comes after the local authority admitted “very serious concerns” about the future of the firm, which is having to cut services such as street-cleansing, shut the city’s tips two days a week and increase charges for garden recycling collections among a raft of cost-saving measures.
