Labour Councillor Ed Stubbs says new measures are needed to stop and punish repeated fly-tippers in his Splott ward.
He wants fines to be higher and for the council to provide mobile CCTV in the area to catch fly-tippers and to “keep them on their toes”.
Fly-tipping is the illegal act of dumping items next to a road, in fields, in rivers, or private land without permission.
Campaign group Keep Splott Tidy recently tweeted about rubbish being dumped in areas they had cleared up only days before.
“As a councillor and a Keep Splott Tidy volunteer myself who tidied up that area the day before the fly-tipping, I found it frustrating,” said Cllr Stubbs.
He also warned about private companies dumping waste, saying: “If you see an advert on Gumtree or locally that says ‘pick up for an incredibly cheap price’, you’ve got to ask yourself the question ‘what’s happening to that waste?’
People have got to start getting a bit cleverer”.
Councillor Stubbs also said he wanted the council to give more publicity to the fines they hand out.
“I’d like the fly-tippers to know that fines are being given out. I’m not sure we can ever do enough of that,” he said.
We feel so upset. After so many volunteers turn up and give time to pick up other people’s rubbish, we’ve come home to see this pile of fly tipping in the exact same spot we litter picked this weekend. @EdwardStubbs @cardiffcouncil @msjanehenshaw @huwthomas_Wales @inksplott pic.twitter.com/2YCTS6fQ8H
— Keep Splott Tidy (@KeepSplottTidy) January 31, 2018
Welsh government statistics say there was a 29 percent increase in fly-tipping in Cardiff between 2016 and 2017, with 1779 more incidents than the previous period.
Cardiff Council says the maximum fine is £50,000 and that particularly serious offences could result in up to five years in prison.
It has a page on its website where people can report offences, and information about how to avoid unintentionally contributing to the problem.
