\n Warrington Borough Council\u2019s environmental crime officers are working with Torus in the Grasmere Avenue and Greenwood Crescent areas of Orford.\n<\/p>\n
\n The teams are focusing on clearing historic waste and are investigating the illegal dumping of rubbish.\n<\/p>\n
\n The environmental crime team are reminding residents to use the correct bins for waste, to take bulky items to one of the town\u2019s recycling centre or to arrange for a bulky waste collection, and to use a licensed scrap metal collector.\n<\/p>\n
\n It comes as the council\u2019s environmental crime team has recently been shortlisted as a finalist in the Best Council Services Team category of the MJ Achievement Awards.\n<\/p>\n
\n The team could be taking home an accolade for its waste improvement work across the central six wards. Since launching its waste improvement project, the environmental crime team says that across the borough, it has achieved a:\n<\/p>\n
55% reduction in fly\u2011tipping complaints<\/p>\n
33% reduction in Contact Centre demand<\/p>\n
69% fewer referrals to Street Services for waste removal<\/p>\n
100% increase in evidence recovery rates<\/p>\n
\n While its results across the Central 6 wards have been:\n<\/p>\n
62% fewer fly\u2011tipping complaints<\/p>\n
73% drop in proactively identified waste incidents needing removal<\/p>\n
91% fewer referrals to Street Services<\/p>\n
49% reduction in duplicate complaints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington Borough Council\u2019s environmental crime officers are working with Torus in the Grasmere Avenue and Greenwood Crescent areas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459158","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\/459158","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=459158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}