The Wire submitted an FOI request to Rushcliffe Borough Council to find out what types of litter have resulted in the most £100 penalty charge notices.
Rushcliffe Borough Council is six months into a trial which delegates waste enforcement – littering and fly tipping mostly – to a third-party private business called WISE.
The results since the trial began on 5 January 2021 are astonishing – in 2018 RBC issued 3 ( three ) PCNs for littering, in 2019 they issued 2 ( two ) in 2020 they issued 13 and in 2021 to end June 1,310 had been issued.
So a massive increase in enforcement and at no cost to the council.
We asked: What were the PCNs issued for within the ‘littering’ category?
1,310 penalty charge notices were issued for littering between 5 Jan and 30 June 2021 ( by the time of the meeting this was over 1,500)
The breakdown below shows the reason why they were issued.