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"Snitch" line set up by Keep Britain Tidy
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4. Keep Britain Tidy has launched a hard-hitting campaign urging the public to snitch on fly-tippers via a telephone hotline.
Local councils and the Environment Agency have vowed to follow up on tip-offs from the public by either trying to catch the fly-tippers red-handed or by setting up a trap to catch them in the future.
As part of the campaign, Keep Britain Tidy spoke to 157 councils and 390 landowners Including the National Farmers Union to fled out how prevalent fly-tipping has become. More than 70% of councils said they had a "significant" problem with fly-tipping, having received around 300,000 complaints about it last year.
Keep Britain Tidy chief executive Alan Woods says: "It may sound like a desperate measure to have to get people to "shop" fly-tippers. but that is the only way we're going to solve the problem. If we truly want to stop it we must draw a line in the sand— and that starts with helping put fly-tippers before the courts."
"Don't Turn a Blind Eye", which was launched last week outside the House of Parliament, is being backed by a national poster campaign. The tip-off hotline number is: 0845 3000 630.
• The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency is surveying garages in the west of Edinburgh following concerns about the dumping of tyres near a railway line. SEPA is cracking down on the disposal of tyres by garages and their contractors as concern mounts that the tyres could be rolled on to the railway line, putting passengers in danger.