- FoI Number
- 2023-678
- Subject
- Flytipping
- Date Received
- 01/02/2024
- Request and Response
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Please find below a request for information on flytipping (defined as the dumping of waste in the wrong place, usually pre-meditated and involving larger items or volumes) to support Zero Waste Scotland’s to develop a Litter & Flytipping Data Strategy.
Flytipping incidents
1. Do you record how many flytipping incidents occur on your sites? If yes for each incident, what information is recorded? (waste type, source – household or commercial, location of incident, volume)
NHS Shetland will record any flytipping incidents on Datix. To date no flytipping incidents have been reported on our sites.
2. Do you record how the flytipped materials are disposed e.g. into waste, into recycling, collected by the local authority, collected by a waste disposal commercial organisation?
Data that informs flytipping management
Should an incident occur then the disposal route would be recorded.
3. Do you collect information on any factors that might explain the frequency of flytipping (e.g. seasonality, transient populations, local or global events)? If yes, what do you collect?
Should repeated incidents occur then these would be analysed via any patterns.
4. Do you use any technology to support the identification and management of flytipping? (e.g. geospatial technology)
Flytipping prevention activities
No.
5. Have you carried out any flytipping prevention activities or interventions in the last three financial years (these could include – increased surveillance of hotspots, work with local communities and businesses, improved site security)? If yes: please list and describe the factors that informed the intervention’s design.
No.
6. Did you work with any internal or external partners when planning flytipping prevention activities or interventions? If yes, please list these partners.
Not applicable.
7. Have you collected data on the impact and/or effectiveness of these flytipping prevention interventions? What measures of impact and/or effectiveness did you use?
Not applicable.
