Fly-tipping: Causes, Incentives and Solutions - Keep Britain Tidy

Fly-tipping: Causes, Incentives and Solutions
Figure 3.7: The distribution of small and large-scale tips around London
Comparing Flycapture data with other local area statistics potentially provides
insight into fly-tipping problems. However, the limitations of Flycapture
described at the beginning of this section mean such analyses must be
treated with caution. Furthermore, since local authority areas vary greatly by
way of population density, housing, income, land use, amount of construction
work, rurality and proximity to cities etc., it is likely the factors that contribute
to fly-tipping may differ between areas too. For example, in terms of access to
civic amenity sites, distance might be an important factor in rural areas,
whereas in urban areas, traffic conditions may be more significant. More
importantly, many factors thought to be associated with fly-tipping co-vary to a
considerable extent. For example, areas that are densely populated are the
same areas where you find poor quality overcrowded housing, low income
families, etc. This complicates the analysis and renders conclusions hard to
make with any degree of confidence.
The remainder of this section considers some factors that could be
hypothesised as being associated with fly-tipping. It must be emphasised that
these analyses are speculative with the associations described are not to be
considered conclusive; but as warranting more in-depth investigation at most.
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