ITV’s Big Clean-Up
Don’t forget to tune in to ITV’s Big Clean-Up, a half hour long documentary special on the campaign, which motivated thousands of volunteers to get out and make a difference […]
Category Archives: Clean streets
Improved street cleaning in Merton
A raft of customer focused, street cleaning enhancement measures have been introduced in Merton. The first of the measures, a Saturday street litter picking service, was introduced in Mitcham on […]
Fly-tipper in court
Following a fly-tipping incident in Mitcham last October, a Carshalton plumber has been given a six months conditional discharge and ordered to pay legal costs of £495 at Wimbledon Magistrates […]
Swatting those fly-tippers!
Illegal fly-tippers better think twice before dumping their goods in Merton as the council’s enforcement team has successfully caught over 170 offenders since July 2005, with 7 offenders being prosecuted. […]
Carpets, fishes and fines
Two fly-tippers have been prosecuted thanks to a local resident who joined forces with Merton Council’s enforcement team to win cases against Mr Nasir and Mr Kingston at Wimbledon Magistrates […]
Counting the cost of fly-tipping
Merton Council’s enforcement team are celebrating a successful year of tackling fly-tipping in the borough following two more successful prosecutions at Wimbledon Magistrates Court this month. On 8 December Mr […]
Smile for the camera
Merton’s undercover camera has recorded nine incidents of fly-tipping in the borough since it was installed at an undisclosed location in July 2004. Merton Council have been working closely with […]
Lessons on litter from Neighbourhood Wardens
Merton’s Neighbourhood Warden scheme staged a number of clean-up days with local primary schools earlier this month. Armed with litter-pickers, overalls and refuse bags, the team of wardens went to […]
Moving in on fly-tippers
Merton is going mobile in the quest to combat fly-tipping with a new set of covert CCTV cameras that can be set up anywhere in the borough to gather surveillance […]
Suspect fly tipping vehicle seized by Police
‘Don’t treat Merton like a dump’ is the message from Merton Council, the Environment Agency and the Police, who worked together to catch a suspected fly-tipper in the Borough. Merton […]