flytipping

Fourteen black bin bags and loose rubbish including a bucket and cardboard dumped in long grass under trees beside a wooden fence
Port Talbot

PORT TALBOT: Waste man took £490 to clear a house, then 14 bags were dumped under the M4

Nathan Pearce drove the load to Briton Ferry recycling centre, spoke to staff and left, the council says. It turned…

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Kit Peters
Black bin bags, cardboard boxes and plastic bottles dumped on the verge of a single-track moorland road, with green fields and hills behind
Cllr Scott Jones

PONTARDAWE: Firm boss must pay almost £3,000 after three piles of business waste dumped on mountain road

The rubbish was traced back to a Swansea business, and its waste had been collected by Thomas Landek's company. He…

A pile of dumped household items including bags, bedding and a clothes airer on a gravel track across open hillside, with hills in the distance
Cllr Scott Jones

YSTRADGYNLAIS: Man hit with £1,200-plus bill for dumping household junk on Gwrhyd mountain road

Wayne Thompson's rubbish was found on the open hillside above Rhiwfawr. His fine was £440, just £40 more than a…

A pile of fly-tipped waste including black bin bags, plastic sheeting and metal poles on the leaf-covered verge of a country lane
Crynant

FLY-TIPPING: Morriston man must pay more than £1,400 after waste strewn along two miles of Dulais Valley road

Roger Townsend admitted illegally dumping a load including vehicle parts and oil-coated components along the road between Crynant and Cilfrew…

Aerial view of a scrapyard crane lifting crushed vehicle remains from a pile of scrap metal
Cannabis

RESOLVEN: Crushed! Van used to dump cannabis farm waste in Neath Valley forest is destroyed — after five prosecuted

The tipper van used to fly-tip cannabis farm waste in Rheola Forestry has been crushed by Neath Port Talbot Council…

A large pile of black planters, growing medium and sheeting fly-tipped on a forestry track surrounded by trees
Cannabis

RESOLVEN: Five fined more than £6,800 after cannabis farm waste dumped in Neath Valley forest

A document left among the rubbish helped convict five fly-tippers who dumped the remains of a cannabis farm on protected…

White transit pickup truck being crushed by industrial machinery at a scrapyard, with other vehicles and metal debris visible in the background
Briton Ferry

Neath Port Talbot crushes fly-tippers’ vehicles as crackdown intensifies

Neath Port Talbot Council has crushed three more vehicles linked to illegal dumping as part of an intensifying enforcement crackdown,…

Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca‑Davies standing with council and Fly‑tipping Action Wales representatives in front of the “Don’t Waste Our Future” anti‑fly‑tipping mural created by local pupils and artist Steve Jenkins.
CCTV

SMILE FOR THE CAMERA: Neath Port Talbot to get new surveillance blitz in major fly‑tipping crackdown

NEW surveillance cameras and the threat of significantly higher fines are being rolled out across Neath Port Talbot as part…

Back lane in Llanelli littered with dumped bags, cans and household waste beneath an external staircase.
Cllr Shaun Greaney

Llanelli backs ‘Skip Day’ plan to tackle fly‑tipping scourge — with councillors insisting: ‘Charge the offenders, not the community’

A new ‘Skip Day’ scheme aimed at tackling the fly‑tipping blighting streets and back lanes across Llanelli has won cross‑party…

Group of schoolchildren and an artist posing in front of a mural with green eyes, with dumped items arranged in front.
Art

“Don’t waste our future”: Pupils and celebrity artist hit back at fly-tippers with bold mural in Neath Port Talbot

A group of schoolchildren from Neath Port Talbot have teamed up with celebrity artist Nathan Wyburn to send a message…

Litter and dumped materials on Edward Street, Port Talbot, including cardboard boxes, clothing and motor oil.
Crynant

Neath man fined over fly-tipping in Port Talbot after ignoring £400 penalty

A Neath man who dumped food packaging, cardboard boxes and other waste in a Port Talbot street has ended up…