FLY-TIPPING cost Bradford Council almost £700,000 last year, with prosecutions also on the rise.
Clean-ups cost the local authority £401,819 in 2012/13, compared to £577,686 during 2013/14, but it had to foot a bill of £685,497 in 2014/15.
The number of incidents of fly-tipping has also increased across the district over the last three years.
There were 6,335 incidents in 2012/13, 8,867 recorded in 2013/14 and 10,374 in 2014/15.
Meanwhile the number of prosecutions for fly-tipping in the Bradford district has nearly doubled in the last three years. There were 16 prosecutions in 2012/13, 15 in 2013/14 and 31 2014/15.
Fly-tipping has increased across England, with taxpayers footing a multi-million-pound bill to clear up illegally dumped waste, figures show.
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In England there were 529,462 incidents of fly-tipping in 2014/15.
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