Fly-tipping fines and your duty of care in Tameside
What Tameside's fly-tipping enforcement means for you, checked against Tameside Council and Recycle for Greater Manchester pages on 2 November 2026.
- Tameside issued 296 fixed penalties for waste offences in 2025
- 258 of them were for fly-tipping
- One Ashton fly-tipper was ordered to pay almost £2,000 in court
- Paying someone unlicensed can land the fine on you
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The numbers
Tameside's waste enforcement team issued 296 fixed penalty notices in 2025: 258 for fly-tipping, 29 for littering, 8 for failing to produce a waste transfer note and 1 under household duty of care. There were also 10 successful prosecutions for waste offences, the Tameside Correspondent reported in February 2026.
In court
People who do not pay a fixed penalty can end up in court. Tameside reported a man who dumped waste in an Ashton alleyway being fined £1,100, with a £440 victim surcharge and £426 costs, after he did not pay his fixed penalty.
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By law you must make sure your household waste goes to someone authorised to take it. If a cheap "man with a van" dumps it and it is traced back to you, you can be fined too.
Checking who you hire
- Ask for their waste carrier registration number
- Check it on the Environment Agency public register
- Ask where the waste is going
- Get a receipt with their name and the date
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