\n The council said it will name and shame offenders as part of the campaign, which will fund expanded enforcement teams, new CCTV cameras, improved waste services, and a public reward scheme for residents who help secure prosecutions.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Anthony Okereke, leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, said: “Fly-tipping is lazy and criminal, and we\u2019re not putting up with this s*** anymore.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We\u2019re collecting around 841 tonnes of dumped rubbish a year, which costs our residents over \u00a3800,000 a year.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That is the equivalent of 50 double decker buses \u2013 that\u2019s unacceptable when the vast majority of residents do the right thing and keep the borough clean.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We\u2019ve heard loud and clear from residents that you\u2019re sick of fly-tipping in our borough \u2013 and so are we.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That\u2019s why we\u2019re investing millions to get things done in Greenwich.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The investment will be used to double the size of the council\u2019s enforcement teams and install new CCTV.\n<\/p>\n
\n The council\u2019s fly-tipping task force has already grown from five teams to eight, with plans to launch a new team focused on clearing hotspots in real time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Jackie Smith, cabinet member for inclusive economy, business, Greenwich Supports and environmental services, said: “We\u2019re making it harder for cowboy criminals to get away with dumping \u2013 but we\u2019re also making it easier for residents to get rid of rubbish properly.\n<\/p>\n
\n “More CCTV, a dedicated task force, tougher punishments and better services \u2013 we\u2019re cracking down on fly-tipping for good.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The funding will also support improvements to the bulky waste collection service.\n<\/p>\n
\n The \u00a35 million comes from ringfenced grants and the council\u2019s negotiations with developers, part of a wider \u00a360 million investment secured through council negotiations.\n<\/p>\n
\n This funding forms part of the council\u2019s “Getting Things Done” programme and cannot be used to offset any future deficits.\n<\/p>\n
\n The council will also introduce a public reward scheme for information that leads to successful prosecutions of fly-tippers and will publish the names of offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council said it will name and shame offenders as part of the campaign, which will fund expanded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-232800","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\/232800","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=232800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}