The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has released a new set of data showing the level of fly-tipping in each east London borough across the 2023/24 financial year.
Newham was by far the most fly-tipped borough in east London across the year.
In total, it registered 19,629 cases of fly-tipping.
A total of 16,529 of these were classed as ‘highway incidents’ whilst 2,149 cases were ‘council land incidents’.
The vast majority of the cases, 14,374, were described as compromising of ‘other household waste’.
Whilst the data does not confirm how much this cost each council to clear up in total, it did reveal that £370,929 was spent by Newham Council on tipper lorry clearance costs alone.
The borough with the second highest fly-tipping count was Waltham Forest with 9,431.
A total of 8,881 of these were reported on council land whilst 216 were on private or residential land.
Cases of ‘other household waste’ were reported 5,461 times whilst 1,437 cases were of ‘black bag household incidents’.
According to the data, £180,000 was spent on tipper lorry clearance costs here across 2023/24.
Tower Hamlets was next in the rankings with a total of 6,744 cases of fly-tipping throughout the year and £57,460 spent on lorry clearance costs.
Footpath and bridleway incidents made up the majority of the cases with 6,613 whilst 32 incidents were reported on council land.
A total of 644 cases of ‘white goods’ fly-tipping were reported, which involves appliances such as fridges or freezers being dumped.
‘Black bag’ incidents made up 1,884 of the cases with 1,184 being labelled as commercial and 700 being labelled as household.
In Redbridge, a total of 6,637 cases were reported in 2023/24.
Animal carcasses were reported 823 times in Redbridge – making up 92.4 per cent of all animal carcass reports in the east of the capital.
Highways proved a popular spot for fly-tippers in Redbridge with 5,105 reports whilst 578 reports were made in back alleys and 457 on council land.
Redbridge only paid £1,840 in tipper lorry clearance costs, according to the figures.
There were 3,624 fly-tip incidents in Barking and Dagenham.
A huge proportion of these were reported on footpaths and bridleways – 3,115.
‘Other household waste’ and black bags continued to be major contributors with 2,460 and 657 cases reported respectively.
The data shows that Barking and Dagenham Council spent £16,800 on tipper lorry clearance costs in 2023/24.
Havering had 3,361 incidents of fly-tipping – the lowest in east London.
A total of 1,076 reports were made on council land whilst 977 were on footpaths or bridleways and 843 on highways.
Again, ‘other household waste’ and black bags were reported most frequently with 1,662 and 637 cases respectively whilst 167 cases were for ‘green incidents’ and 185 for ‘white goods’.
The data shows that Havering Council paid tipper lorry clearance costs of £16,500.
