A huge rise in fly-tipping in Bristol has been blamed on the cost of living crisis starting to ease off. As inflation has fallen and salaries have gone up since the peak of the crisis, more people are feeling comfortable enough to buy expensive items like new sofas, dumping their old ones
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00:00a huge rise in fly tipping in bristol has been blamed on the cost of living crisis
00:07starting to ease off is inflation has fallen and salaries have gone up since the peak of the crisis
00:14more people are feeling comfortable enough to buy expensive items like new sofas dumping their old
00:21ones between october and december of last year 7781 fly tipping incidents were reported and removed
00:33according to bristol's city council figures this is almost 1 900 more incidents than the same period
00:41in 2023 waste bosses at the council were pressed for answers by councillors on the environmental
00:50policy committee on thursday april the third as well as inflation cooling off they said the extra
00:57resources put into clearing up fly tipping was another reason for the spike in the figures
01:03ken lawson head of waste said we removed more because we put more resources in to try and clear
01:10a backlog that had built up and that's why there was a big spike but we think that the cost of living
01:16suppressed many purchases and now the inflation dropping and wages going up a bit we think saw
01:22an uptick in expenditure towards the end of last year inflation in the uk at the moment is 2.8
01:31according to the office of national statistics the rate of how quickly the cost of living is increasing
01:37measures by the consumer prices index peaked at 11.1 percent in october 2022