{"id":370304,"date":"2026-04-02T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:36:13","slug":"kent-drowning-in-mountains-of-waste-due-to-fly-tipping-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370304\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent &#8216;drowning in mountains of waste&#8217; due to fly-tipping gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-tipping is placing a &#8220;significant environmental, financial and operational burden&#8221; on public services, a council has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report for Kent County Council&#8217;s scrutiny committee described the impact of waste crime on services, landowners and communities in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nearly 23,000 fly-tips were reported in 2024-25 across the council area, according to the report \u2013 2,000 more than the previous year but down from a peak of 25,000 in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) said landowners, who must pay to clear dumped rubbish on their property, had now &#8220;had enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping is placing a &#8220;significant environmental, financial and operational burden&#8221; on public services, a council has said. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-370304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}