Cardiff Allocates £1 Million to Combat Persistent Fly-Tipping Issues

Cardiff plans to spend to fix fly-tipping. They see it rising in the inner city. Council officials discussed this at a meeting that happened on February 25 when they talked about budgets for 2025-26. Waste and recycling were main topics.

The city will invest £1 million to recycle better. The money is a one-time investment. It focuses on teaching people about recycling and includes tougher enforcement against dumping.

They will target food waste because recycling is worse at flats in Wales. So, flats will get separate recycling bins to help them recycle more.

They will also focus on inner-city areas where people dump waste near street bins. They will enforce rules about waste, ensuring people know when to put waste out and how to sort it. They will also investigate illegal dumping.

Cardiff’s sack-sort recycling starts in March with people sorting waste into bags and boxes. The Council saw better recycling in the last year and they expect 64% recycling by year’s end.

The sack-sort plan skips flats for now, with a special plan for flats coming later. More information on this plan will come soon. A council member likes the extra money for fly-tipping, because he sees illegal dumping often in his area.

Cardiff needs to save £27.7 million in 2025-26. They plan some waste and recycling changes to save money. They will remove some employee roles, raise fees and charges and reduce roles via vacant positions and voluntary redundancy.

Fees will increase for some services including business waste disposal, bulky waste charges. Replacing bin lids and wheels will also cost more, and bulky waste collection will increase by 20 percent.