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Nature Minister Mary Creagh says that local councils would have the power to force fly-tippers to do 20 hours of community service to clean up their own rubbish, in an initiative to tackle waste crime. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00At the moment, local authorities are reluctant to prosecute because often the costs of prosecution can take longer and there
00:07can be very little consequence at the end of it.
00:10So this is a new penalty. As part of our manifesto, we promised that we'd bring in clean-up squads.
00:16So this is about forcing the people who are dumping on our streets, spoiling our landscapes, leaving landowners to pick
00:23up the costs to get a caution and to actually clean up the sites that they have actually despoiled.
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