Cracking down on fly-tipping and littering

Mitcham & Morden

Fly-tipping and littering is a menace. It’s filthy behaviour, done by criminals, and it’s a disgrace. It makes our borough and community unsightly, and clearing it up costs a yearly total of £1 million, money better spent on our other services. Last year, we issued more fines for littering and fly-tipping offences than any other London borough. We’re cracking down, prosecuting all culprits we have evidence for.

But we need your help to go further. We’re making it easier for you to report fly-tipping on the council’s website, or with a new app called Fix My Street. We promise that if you report it, we’ll clear it within 24 hours.

And we’ll prosecute everyone where we have the evidence to identify the culprit. That’s why we ask you to look at our Wall of Shame on the council website to help identify culprits we’ve caught on CCTV so they can be fined and stopped. The council is doing its bit, and making it easier for you to do your bit too. But we have to make this everyone’s responsibility. So where fly-tipping happens on private land, we’ll work to find the owners and force them to act. Because we’re all in this community together.