00:00a huge rise in fly tipping in bristol has been blamed on the cost of living crisis
00:07starting to ease off is inflation has fallen and salaries have gone up since the peak of the crisis
00:14more people are feeling comfortable enough to buy expensive items like new sofas dumping their old
00:21ones between october and december of last year 7781 fly tipping incidents were reported and removed
00:33according to bristol's city council figures this is almost 1 900 more incidents than the same period
00:41in 2023 waste bosses at the council were pressed for answers by councillors on the environmental
00:50policy committee on thursday april the third as well as inflation cooling off they said the extra
00:57resources put into clearing up fly tipping was another reason for the spike in the figures
01:03ken lawson head of waste said we removed more because we put more resources in to try and clear
01:10a backlog that had built up and that's why there was a big spike but we think that the cost of living
01:16suppressed many purchases and now the inflation dropping and wages going up a bit we think saw
01:22an uptick in expenditure towards the end of last year inflation in the uk at the moment is 2.8
01:31according to the office of national statistics the rate of how quickly the cost of living is increasing
01:37measures by the consumer prices index peaked at 11.1 percent in october 2022
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