Illegal dumping

Illegal dumping is a particular type of littering where people go out of their way to dump their rubbish on land without approval.

It includes bags of rubbish and unwanted items in local streets, in parks, outside charity bins or in building site bins, on vacant land or in the bush.

It also includes situations where people deliberately fill up trailers and trucks with all sorts of materials and dump them in an area where they think they will not be seen, such as National Parks, bushland reserves, parks, industrial and building sites.

What's wrong with illegal dumping?

Reduces property values;
Increases risk of fire;
Encourages vermin;
Poses health and environmental dangers;
Causes visual obstruction hazards;
Costs local ratepayers for disposal;
Poses lost recycling opportunities;
Attracts anti-social behaviour.