Agencies 'fail to tackle fly-tipping menace by organised crime groups'

LORDS COMMITTEE CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO SET UP 'ROOT AND BRANCH' REVIEW

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THE Environment Agency, police and other agencies are failing to tackle fly-tipping by organised crime groups, a cross-party group of peers has found.

In a letter to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds, the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee called on the Government to set up an independent root and branch review of serious and organised waste crime.

The committee argued that while fly-tipping is causing significant environmental, social and economic costs of around £1 billion every year, it is drastically under-prioritised.

The letter said: "We are deeply concerned about the demonstrable inadequacy of the current approach to tackling waste crime."