Cleaning up after the flytippers

In the east, it's Medway that's worst affected by flytipping with more than 3000 incidents there last year.

Hastings had just under 3 thousand reports of flytipping; Brighton and Hove had two thousand. But Swale, Dartford, Canterbury and Crawley were all - in the top 15.

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A report has revealed that Southampton - more than anywhere else in the west of the region - suffers most from flytipping.

The figures - from the Department for Energy, Food and Rural Affairs - show there were more than eight and a half thousand incidents last year. Basingstoke came 4th, Brighton and Hove 6th and Reading, the Test Valley, Portsmouth and Crawley - were all in the top 15.

Our councils are paying out millions of pounds each year to clean up the mess - but is it enough?

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Out on patrol with a clean-up crew in Brighton this morning we discovered nearly half a dozen instances of fly-tipping in less than an hour. The city's Green council leader Jason Kitcat tells us why catching the perpetrators is so difficult.

Council officers in the South are being forced to deal with more cases of fly-tipping as people try to avoid the costs of recycling by dumping rubbish.

A new survey by the GMB shows that officers in Southampton were called to 8,708 cases of fly-tipping, the highest across the South.

While in Medway the local authority dealt with 3,130 separate incidents including a case where a man dumped builder's rubbish onto the door of a charity shop.

A new study has found that Southampton is the place worst affected by flytipping in the South East. The report from the GMB public services union says that a total of 70,745 incidents have been reported by 67 councils in the South East, with 8,708 incidents in Southampton alone.

Other areas in the top ten for the year 2010/11 were:

• Second - Milton Keynes 5,321 incidents
• Third - Medway 3,130 incidents,
• Fourth - Basingstoke & Deane 2,879 incidents,
• Fifth - Hastings 2,873,
• Sixth - Brighton and Hove 2,227,
• Seventh - Reading 2,179,
• Eighth - Swale 1,918,
• NInth - Test Valley 1,881,
• Tenth - Dartford 1,777.