https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/flytipping-2018
Fly-tipping discovered 2,700 times a day in England
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/flytipping-2018
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Fly-tipping discovered 2,700 times a day in England
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/flytipping-2018
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2018-11-15T14:04:26.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-11-16T07:49:49.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:41:34.149Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: environment, flytipping
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46153887
- Size: 104 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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# Fly-tipping discovered 2,700 times a day in England
In November 2018 Dan Wainwright [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46153887) on the one million crimes of fly-tipping reported by councils across England during 2017-18, the first fall in five years.
There is no estimated cost of tackling fly-tipping this year as Defra has decided it is an outdated measure.
A spokeswoman told us it was “because the standard unit costs that these estimates were based on are now more than ten years out of date and we do not have confidence in the continued relevance of these”.
We found the areas with the highest rates of fly-tipping by population, combining Defra statistics with ONS population estimates.
Visuals were made either in R using ggplot2 or within the BBC’s in house “in-depth toolkit”.
## Get the data
* [ENV24 - Fly tipping incidents and actions taken in England](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england)
* [CSV version of the data](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/flytipping-2018/blob/master/flytip.csv)
## Quotes and interviews
* Javed Iqbal, Alum Rock Community Forum
* Gary Palin, Crewe fly-tipping Facebook group
* Councillor Martin Tett, Local Government Association
* Spokeswoman, Defra
## Visualisation and interactivity
* Histogram: Fly-tipping incidents in England, 2007-2018
* Bar chart: Areas of England with the highest rates of fly-tipping
* Feedback form: *"What do you want to know about fly-tipping? Use the form below to ask us and we could be in touch."
## Related stories and repos
This is the third story the unit has done on fly-tipping. In October last year we reported [Fly-tipping costs taxpayers £58m in clean-up costs](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/flytipping-costs) and in September the year before that we published the story [How do you stop fly-tipping and littering?](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/flytipping).
You can [find all of the repos for these stories tagged 'flytipping'](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aflytipping+org%3ABBC-Data-Unit&type=Repositories)