Car used for fly-tipping crushed by council

A car that was spotted on CCTV being used for fly-tipping has been crushed by a council.

The Volkswagen Golf was seen dumping about 10 bags of household waste at the corner of Lime Street and Fisher Street, in Wolverhampton, in the early hours of 8 April last year.

It was seized from the Graiseley area of the city, and City of Wolverhampton Council's environmental crime team tracked down the person responsible for dumping the waste and ordered them to pay a £500 fine.

The vehicle had no resale value, the council said, so it was destroyed.

Councillor Bhupinder Gakhal said: "We're proud of the work taking place across the city to tackle this careless and damaging crime and we have just agreed to invest an additional £257,146 in tackling the problem in our budget for 2026-27.

"Fly-tipping can cost local taxpayers up to £500,000 a year - it is illegal, unhygienic and causes a lot of upset for our residents. We will use every power available to us and will not stand by while criminals damage and degrade our city."

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