But five years on, Mr Griffiths, the group’s secretary, said they had been continually “frustrated” by further incidents which have since gone unpunished.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had people fly-tipping bags of rubbish, and I know of cases where sheep have been killed from eating them,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had broken glass on the common, and the farmers getting together to clear it – there were four bin bags full of bottles and things like that.”<\/p>\n
While councils are responsible for clearing fly-tipping from public land, they do not have to clear waste from private land.<\/p>\n
Since Bridgend Council’s last prosecution for fly-tipping, neighbouring authority Neath Port Talbot had brought forward 139 cases, with the vast majority resulting in fines.<\/p>\n
Over the same period, Welsh government data indicates that Cardiff Council made 206 prosecutions, while Rhondda Cynon Taf had a total of 143.<\/p>\n
But the picture across Wales is mixed, with many recording only a handful of prosecutions a year – and Anglesey Council having none going back almost two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But five years on, Mr Griffiths, the group’s secretary, said they had been continually “frustrated” by further incidents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-211867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}