‘How we track down fly-tippers’

Crisp packets, coffee cups, mattresses and even rolls of old carpet: Bromsgrove District Council says it's experiencing nine incidents of fly-tipping a day.

Discover how the authorities detect the people putting waste in environmentally hazardous locations, as well as the people who owned the waste to begin with.

From a fly-tipping site near Romsley, Toni Ainscough from Worcestershire Regulatory Services and Doug Henderson from the district council tell Alistair Binney how they aim to catch fly-tippers, after incidents in the area doubling since 2022.