sort their recyclables at home<\/a> and leave them out for collection in separate containers.\n<\/p>\n\n Other councils in the region have already brought in that \u2018blueprint\u2019 system, and Cllr Morgan said he had \u201cno doubt it is fly-tipping from these boroughs that is blighting our communities and mountains\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The council\u2019s Plaid group has branded local fly-tipping a \u201ccrisis\u201d and Cllr Bishop said the problem has both environmental and human costs.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cResidents in Caerphilly county are fed up seeing their communities repeatedly blighted by rubbish, black bags, furniture and waste dumped near homes and beauty spots,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cResidents deserve clean streets, protected green spaces and an approach that prevents this problem getting even worse.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n But Cllr Morgan\u2019s comments suggest the council was effectively powerless to stop the introduction of more stringent recycling rules and targets.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhile we in Caerphilly continue our \u2018quick win\u2019 process to achieve extra percentage on top of our current 61% recycling figures, this Labour administration is worried that moving to a \u2018blueprint\u2019 service will increase fly tipping and street scene mess,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cllr Morgan added he had written to the relevant minister in the new Plaid Cymru-controlled Welsh Government \u201cto help us here\u201d and ask her \u201cwhether they will be increasing the percentage, putting more pressure on local authorities like Caerphilly\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Freedom of Information disclosures also showed the borough wards with the worst fly-tipping problems over the past decade were St Martins, Ynysddu, and St Cattwg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freedom of Information Act disclosures show the council has recorded nearly 24,000 incidents of illegal waste dumping since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598644","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\/598644","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=598644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}