Remember, we are cracking down on fly tipping – it is a crime that affects you, your family and your community, and more importantly your pocket as a Northamptonshire tax payer. We need your help to track down fly tipping offenders. Is th is y o Find your nearest Household Waste Recycling Centres Tip off your local council in total confidence if you u There are ten sites across the county, check online witness fly tipping or have any suspicions. r s at www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/recyclingcentres for ? opening times. All sites are closed on Christmas Day, Further Information Boxing Day and New Years Day. For further information contact your local council or check their website. Brixworth Corby Scaldwell Road Kettering Road Contact details for your local council: Brixworth Weldon Northants, NN6 9RB Northants, NN17 3JG Daventry Kettering Corby Borough Council: Browns Road Garrard Way Northampton Borough Off Staverton Road Telford Way Industrial Estate Council: 01536 464000 Daventry Kettering www.corby.gov.uk Northants, NN11 4NS Northants, NN16 8TD 01604 837837 www.northampton.gov.uk Northampton – Ecton Lane Northampton – Sixfields Lower Ecton Lane Walter Tull Way Great Billing Weedon Road Northampton, NN3 5HQ Via Sixfields Leisure roundabout East Northamptonshire Rushden Northampton, NN5 5QL Daventry District Council: Council: Your rubbish is Northampton Road 01832 742000 East of Sanders Lodge on Towcester 01327 871100 www.daventrydc.gov.uk www.east- the old A45 road Old Greens Norton Road northamptonshire.gov.uk your responsibility Rushden Towcester Northants, NN10 6AL Northants, NN12 8AW Make sure it doesn’t get dumped Wellingborough Wollaston Kettering Borough Paterson Road Grendon Road Council: A guide for householders Finedon Road Wollaston, NN29 7PU 01536 410333 Industrial Estate www.kettering.gov.uk South Northamptonshire Wellingborough Council: Northants, NN8 4BZ 01327 322322 This information can be made available in other languages and formats upon request. Please contact 01604 236236. Removal of bulky items www.southnorthants.gov.uk Your local council will collect bulky items of rubbish such Borough Council of as furniture and electrical equipment for a charge. Wellingborough: 01933 229777 www.wellingborough.gov.uk Fly tipping is a crime and costs taxpayers Your legal responsibilities 6. If you are disposing of waste yourself, you can go to one over £650,000 to remove and dispose of each Whether you are disposing of waste on a regular basis of Northamptonshire’s ten Household Waste Recycling year in Northamptonshire. It can attract further or once in a while, you have a duty of care which legally Centres. All sites provide recycling facilities for: requires you to ensure your rubbish is disposed of • Garden waste crime, is dangerous, unsightly, harmful to the properly. This is outlined in the Environmental Protection environment and is affecting our quality of life. Act 1990. • Cardboard • Paper With the massive budget cuts local authorities The duty of care affects anyone who produces, carries, are facing we need to tackle the fly tipping disposes of or otherwise holds any household waste. • Glass bottles and jars The law requires you to do all that is reasonable to: issue and drive down the 1,000 incidents that • Textiles and clothing happen each month in our county. • Prevent anyone disposing of your household waste • Fluorescent tubes (up to four per year) unlawfully, including appliances and building debris – you • Scrap metal could be held responsible if someone else disposes of or manages your waste illegally. • Electrical and electronic equipment (limits apply on certain items) • Prevent the waste escaping from your control, or from anyone else’s control. • Soil, hardcore and rubble • Transfer your waste only to an authorised waste carrier • Wood and timber who is registered with the Environment Agency, your Make waste your business • Used engine oil local council, or a waste manager who is permitted to These six top tips will help you dispose of household accept the waste. • Car batteries waste legally if using builders or contractors to carry out Reporting fly tipping • Transfer a written description of the waste to the next work on your home: We are cracking down on fly tipping and we need your holder – this must describe the waste sufficiently to help to do this. If we don’t work together the problem will allow them to comply with their duty of care. 1. Check the waste disposal company you are using is authorised to carry your waste by contacting the continue to grow. • Keep all copies of waste transfer notes for two years. Environment Agency on 08708 506 506 or visit If you see fly tipping or have suspicions about a company Penalties you could face www.environment-agency.gov.uk/publicregisters who deals with waste, you can tip off your local council in If you don’t comply with your duty of care you can be If you do not make the check, you could be fined complete confidence. fined up to £5,000 for each offence at Magistrates up to £5,000 Court. Serious cases heard at higher courts can incur We are using Smart Water to investigate fly tipping an unlimited fine. Ignorance will not be a defence if your 2. Keep a note of their details, including the vehicle incidents which will help us identify offenders and lead to waste is fly tipped by someone. registration number. prosecutions. We are working with the police to do this 3. Provide a full description of the waste for the waste and will use local media to ensure prosecutions are high People caught fly tipping can be arrested, fined up to carrier giving details of any unusual characteristics that profile – we will name and shame. £50,000, be imprisoned and get a criminal record. could affect how they plan to handle or dispose of it. [Explain S/W - text to be supplied] 4. Find out where your waste is going and check they can accept it. If you are in any doubt, check that your waste did get there. Get a copy of the receipt from the person who took the waste from you. 5. Keep all paperwork for at least two years. Disposing of rubbish illegally is a major problem across the UK and this is no different for Northamptonshire. This is often referred to as fly tipping and can be anything from a single black bag, a van load of industrial waste, a stack of discarded tyres… the list is endless..