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Farmers increasingly left counting cost of fly-tipping

Agricultural waste management experts at BusinessWaste.co.uk highlight the current scale of the issue and offer guidance on what help is available to farmers and what further work is needed to deal with the issue

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Farmers increasingly left counting cost of fly-tipping

Fly-tipping remains a widespread issue in the UK, with recent data showing councils in England dealt with 1.15 million fly-tipping incidents in 2023-24, a 6% rise on the previous year. While this shows...

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