Useful links to reports, news and views about flytipping and recycling and my and cllr Sam Phripp’s motion to Mendip’s full council in September … 

Local news story about the motion debate: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Row-erupts-fly-tipping-claims/story-17033501-detail/story.html

Support from David Heath MP for Somerton & Frome (also now Minister for Agriculture), critical of some Conservative councillors’ ‘deranged response’:
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Deranged-response-fly-tipping-alarm/story-17032752-detail/story.html

Somerset Waste Board’s meetings, agendas and reports:
http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/council/meetings/results.asp?ccode=32

Somerset Waste Board’s June report: which explains trends in flytipping and recycling in the year after 1st April 2012, compared with the year before: http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/council/meetings/reports.asp?item=922 – see Agenda Items 13 (and Appendices)

Any Junk’s flytipping report 2012 – http://www.anyjunk.co.uk/fly-tipping – the statistics show 4 of Somerset’s 5 districts had the top 20 worst increases in flytippign incidents between 2010-11 and 2011-12… and the useful infographic –  http://www.anyjunk.co.uk/blog/fly-tipping-infographic: shows Mendip and South Somerset both now as ‘high’ flytipping areas.

DEFRA flytipping statistics – http://www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/environment/waste/flytipping-in-england-annual-statistics/

Support from councillor Gloria Cawood, http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Recycling-debate/story-17069472-detail/story.html

My responses to other letters, and to the recent flytipping fire on Gypsy Lane just outside Frome:

‘Fed up with being fobbed off’ (Wells & Shepton Mallet Journals, 11 October 2012):  http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/fed-fobbed/story-17069219-detail/story.html

‘Fire fears emphasise need to tackle flytipping’ (Somerset Standard, 25 October 2012): http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/fears-emphasise-need-tackle-fly-tipping-issues/story-17179695-detail/story.html