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Response by the Cabinet Member: Thank you for your question and I am pleased you found the visit and tour informative. The number of reported flytips varies significantly from month to month and year on year with no particular pattern following any service changes. There were 412 reported flytips in 2024/25, compared to 377 in 2023/24 and 508 in 2022/23. The cardboard banks were removed in October 2024. Bring sites, whilst convenient for residents, are regularly abused with irresponsible flytipping and also illegal use by businesses as you have suggested. Removal of the sites does generally solve the problem of flytipping at those particular locations. As regards an increase in businesses signing up to the Council’s Commercial Recycling Service, the Workplace Recycling Regulations were introduced in April 2024 which obligated businesses to separate their waste and recycling for collection. This has resulted in a significant increase in recycling from our Commercial collections. As the banks were removed during the time when businesses were signing up for recycling collections due to the regulations, it is difficult to attribute the individual effect, but undoubtedly it has contributed to the increase. At the end of 2023/24, there were 1410 commercial recycling customers with a recycling rate of 57.3% from this service. This rose to 1545 customers with a recycling rate for commercial collections of 63.6% at the end of 2024/25. The Commercial Recycling Service operates on a cost neutral basis as required under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, where a reasonable charge can be made by the local authority. Prior to the introduction of the Workplace Recycling Regulations, we reduced the available frequency of residual collections to encourage the take up of recycling amongst our customers. There was also a restructuring of the pricing model to ensure that all costs of collection and processing were recovered. The service is now operating on a break even basis providing excellent value to our customers. Businesses are of course free to use any service provider but must still adhere to the separation requirements of the Workplace Recycling Regulations.
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