{"id":715245,"date":"2026-07-28T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:18:08","slug":"wrexham-waste-collection-fees-could-be-contributing-to-fly-tipping-says-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715245\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham: Waste collection fees could be contributing to fly-tipping, says firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cost of properly disposing of bulky items such as furniture and fridges could be contributing to fly-tipping in Wrexham, according to a commercial waste management firm.<\/p>\n

Business Waste said the authority charged the second highest fees in Wales with a minimum amount of \u00a357.50 for a single item.<\/p>\n

The fee is \u00a310 cheaper than in Ceredigion, but more than \u00a350 higher than the lowest amount in Wales, which is currently in Blaenau Gwent.<\/p>\n

Mark Hall, from Business Waste, said the different pricing had created a “postcode lottery” for bulky waste collection across the UK.<\/p>\n

But Wrexham councillor David Bithell said the authority’s charge was “in line with the council’s cost recovery policy”.<\/p>\n

Fly-tipping hit record levels in Wales<\/a> in the past year, with 1.26m incidents recorded in 2024-25. Wrexham ranked seventh in Wales, with 2,335 incidents of fly-tipping that year.<\/p>\n

According to the council, incidents of fly-tipping have fallen to 1,689 this year and they are expected to decrease further following the authority’s investment in additional enforcement cameras to monitor key fly-tipping sites.<\/p>\n

Wrexham’s minimum fee for removing bulky waste is currently higher than the most expensive average UK charge.<\/p>\n

On average people pay \u00a346 in south east England meanwhile the average across Wales for bulky waste is \u00a334.<\/p>\n

Blithell added: “Most authorities charge for up to three items, we charge for up to eight items, including fridges.”<\/p>\n

In areas such as Cardiff, fly-tipped black bags have become a growing problem<\/a>, leaving residents “horrified” about the impact on communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of properly disposing of bulky items such as furniture and fridges could be contributing to fly-tipping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715245","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\/715245","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=715245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}