Warning to potential fly-tippers

Look out for fly-tipping warnings coming to a street near you!

Several of the council’s fleet of bin lorries have refreshed signage which outlines the consequences of fly-tipping.

The designs highlight the council’s commitment to clamping down on dumped waste and the hope is that the new visuals will serve as a deterrent to reduce instances of rubbish which blight countrysides and back alleys.

Offenders are warned that they could face Fixed Penalty Notices, heavy fines or even a custodial sentence.

To report fly-tipping, please visit the webpage:

Through methods including covert operations and use of CCTV, our enforcement and Trading Standards teams will catch those who are operating illegally.

Over the past few weeks, we have already worked with South Yorkshire Police to tackle the sales of illicit vapes in the city, as well as launching the latest warning to potential fly-tippers.

But we need your help!

If you spot anything suspicious, let us know. This could be anything from:

• Fly tipping
• Illicit tobacco or underage and illegal vape sales
• Littering
• Anti-social behaviour
• Noise nuisance
• Breaching licencing and trading regulations
• Unhygienic food businesses

If you report something, it helps us to be able to take action.

Apart from such intervention by the CDC, police and government can anything be achieved? Perhaps having offenders of any such misdemeanour being linked together in chain gangs to patrol the highways and byways may be the solution, telling them the guy with padlock key is 20 miles up the road could spur them to action.