Bath MP Don Foster has joined calls for local authorities to use the powers given to them be the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 to address fly-tipping and punish those responsible for it.  A major campaign has been launched by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and its President Bill Bryson. 

Don said that fly-tipping blights the whole country from towns and cities, to our countryside, and Bath is no exception.  There are practical measures that the Government should be taking, such as encouraging consumers to return and recycle drinks containers, rather than seeing them thrown away as litter. 

Local authorities need to be making better use of the powers that they already have, and begin punishing those responsible for fly-tipping.  This is why Don has signed EDM 1634, backing the CPRE campaign “Stop the Drop” to see these issues dealt with more seriously.