Flytipping incidents and prevention activities: EIR release

Information requested

Information on flytipping incidents, data management of flytipping and prevention activities.

Do you record how many fly tipping incidents occur on your sites? If yes for each incident, what information is recorded? (waste type, source – household or commercial, location of incident, volume)?

Do you record how the fly tipped materials are disposed e.g. into waste, into recycling, collected by the local authority, collected by a waste disposal commercial organisation?

Do you collect information on any factors that might explain the frequency of fly tipping (e.g. seasonality, transient populations, local or global events)?

Do you use any technology to support the identification and management of fly tipping? (e.g. geospatial technology)?

Have you carried out any fly tipping prevention activities or interventions in the last three financial years (these could include – increased surveillance of hotspots, work with local communities and businesses, improved site security)? If yes: please list and describe the factors that informed the intervention’s design?

Did you work with any internal or external partners when planning fly tipping prevention activities or interventions? If yes, please list these partners?

Have you collected data on the impact and/or effectiveness of these fly tipping prevention interventions?  What measures of impact and/or effectiveness did you use?

Response

Do you record how many fly tipping incidents occur on your sites? If yes for each incident, what information is recorded? (waste type, source – household or commercial, location of incident, volume).

Incidents are recorded during network inspections and the Local Authority notified. The waste type and location is recorded to ensure that the Local Authority is afforded accurate information.

Do you record how the fly tipped materials are disposed e.g. into waste, into recycling, collected by the local authority, collected by a waste disposal commercial organisation?

Dependant on the location of the material the uplift may be the responsibility of the relevant Local Authority who undertake litter picking and sweeping on A class trunk roads. Where Transport Scotland’s Operating Companies are responsible the method of disposal is dependant on the material present i.e. hazardous material which may require uplift by a specialist contractor or other materials are disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner into individual material skips within Operating Company depots, prior to disposal by private contractor. Garden refuse is chipped, domestic waste disposed of through a commercial waste disposal company. Tyres are disposed of by a waste disposal organisation.

Do you collect information on any factors that might explain the frequency of fly tipping (e.g. seasonality, transient populations, local or global events)?

If yes, what do you collect? No, this information is not collected.

Do you use any technology to support the identification and management of fly tipping? (e.g. geospatial technology)

No, technology is not used to support the identification and management of fly tipping.

Have you carried out any fly tipping prevention activities or interventions in the last three financial years (these could include – increased surveillance of hotspots, work with local communities and businesses, improved site security)? If yes: please list and describe the factors that informed the intervention’s design.

Within the Trunk Road Network we have used the following prevention/interventions strategically placed signage and fencing / bollards to prevent a reoccurrence at areas where littering is prevalent. Earth bunds at access at roundabouts. Locked gated access. Improved security with erecting fences with gates due to locations being remote accesses to SUDS ponds,

Blocking vehicular access to a remote area off the network to prevent members of the public gaining access. Dummy camera erected by local authority after consultation.

Permanent concrete barriers and guardrails at various redundant accesses and service areas. Our Operating Company Route Inspectors and Incident Support / TRISS Units also undertake regular daily patrols to quickly identify incident and progress removal as soon as possible to prevent reoccurrence.

Did you work with any internal or external partners when planning fly tipping prevention activities or interventions? If yes, please list these partners.

We work closely with Local Authorities to clear fly tipping with a view to preventing a reoccurrence.

Have you collected data on the impact and/or effectiveness of these fly tipping prevention interventions?  What measures of impact and/or effectiveness did you use?

Areas are periodically checked for flytipping.

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