A tsunami of fly tipping has been sweeping the North, with a spike in cases during the pandemic accelerating a trend that has been creeping up for years.
Eddy Edwards, from Moss Side, has been shocked at the amount of rubbish being dumped in his alleyway since moving into his house in 2019. Speaking to Annie Gouk on the latest episode of The North in Numbers, he said: “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.
“It’s continually getting worse. If nobody in the area was reporting the fly tipping going on, it would continue to mount up in the streets. In our area there’s probably about 10 people regularly reporting, I’m talking daily - fridges, oversized bins, cars, anything getting left out. If people weren’t so on it, it would get even worse. But it is still incredibly bad.”
