{"id":17016,"date":"2017-03-10T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:48:03","slug":"more-people-in-cardiff-being-taken-to-court-for-littering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/more-people-in-cardiff-being-taken-to-court-for-littering\/","title":{"rendered":"More people in Cardiff being taken to court for littering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people being\u00a0taken to court for litter offences in Cardiff has dramatically increased.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff City Council has taken more than 150\u00a0people to court this financial year\u00a0. In 2014\/15\u00a0there was only one case.<\/p>\n<p>The number of fines for littering in the capital\u00a0has also risen sharply &#8211; the figure has more than doubled in the past two years. So far this financial year, nearly 700\u00a0fines have been handed out, compared to around 250\u00a0in the whole of the 2014\/15 financial year<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The increase means Cardiff City Council has made around \u00a3200,000 more in littering fines this year than in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The figures come from a freedom of information request by\u00a0Wales Online.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17068 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/litter-stats-678x394.jpeg\" alt=\"litter-stats\" width=\"480\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are 39 litter enforcement staff employed by Cardiff City Council. In this year\u2019s budget an extra \u00a3150,000 has\u00a0been given to the waste enforcement team. According to the council this extra money will be used to\u00a0hire\u00a0another seven people to patrol the city centre over weekends and afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>This \u00a0extra funding comes as part of a crackdown on litter by the Council.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17058 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/litter-fines-413x394.jpeg\" alt=\"litter-fines\" width=\"413\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Councillor Bob Derbyshire, Cabinet Member of the Environment says: \u201cMost residents take pride in our city, but if our officers see people dropping litter we will fine them . The City Council is committed to tackling waste related issues and we have increased our enforcement team to tackle this.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cllr Derbyshire also says the Council have launched a number of initiatives such as the &#8216;Love Where You Live&#8217; campaign to keep Cardiff&#8217;s streets clean.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Community groups are now established across the city and I would like to thank everyone for their continued efforts to keep Cardiff tidy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people being\u00a0taken to court for litter offences in Cardiff has dramatically increased. Cardiff City Council has taken more than 150\u00a0people to court this financial year\u00a0. In 2014\/15\u00a0there was only one case. The number of fines for littering in the capital\u00a0has also risen sharply &#8211; the figure has more than doubled in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[478,26,150,1359,560,597,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17016"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17099,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions\/17099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}