National Fly-tipping Prevention Group
The National Fly-tipping Prevention Group is a group of organisations working with a common aim to help prevent and tackle fly-tipping.
This work is focused on influencing, advising and raising awareness about the anti-social nature and potential health and environmental damage fly-tipping can cause.
The group is chaired by Defra who also provide the secretariat support for the group. The group meets on a three-monthly basis and is attended by a number of partner organisations from across the United Kingdom.
The role of the group
- To gain a better understanding of social behaviours and why people fly-tip
- Continue to improve the evidence base for fly-tipping crime through collation and use of data
- Improve partnership work in tackling fly-tipping
- Influence and make links with Devolved Administrations
- Learn, share and promote outputs
- Influence and support fly-tipping research projects
- Influence the development of Government policy and legislation
- Improve communications and publicity
- Promote the National Fly-tipping Prevention Group's website as a key source of information for those affected by fly-tipping and a source of best practice for local authorities
- Raise the profile of fly-tipping through the legal system
Further information can be found on The National Fly-tipping Prevention Group website. (Please note some of the information contained on the website may not be relevant in Scotland due to a different legislative framework).
The role of Zero Waste Scotland
We sit on the National Fly-tipping Prevention Group website contributes by sharing learnings, research, key priorities, policy changes and plans with the other national organisations.