Dumb Dumpers

Lead organisation: Zero Waste Scotland, Keep Scotland Beautiful and SEPA (Governmental)

This campaign used the voice of One Foot in the Grave’s Victor Meldrew, aka actor Richard Wilson, to highlight the dumb behaviour of those that fly-tipped and to encourage people to report incidents to the new national 24/7 hotline that was manned by SEPA.

Policy uptake explanation

In Scotland, the main legislation concerning flytipping is the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA 1990), as amended, which prohibits the disposal of waste without the necessary permit. If you see anyone dumping rubbish illegally, call the Dumb Dumpers Stop Line on 0845 2 30 40 90 or visit www.dumbdumpers.org. If the incident is on-going, is believed to be a hazardous nature or is near a watercourse, the information will be passed to us or Police Scotland as appropriate.

Additional information

Source Inventory of environmental citizen science projects
Web site https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/DumbDumpers
Contact point https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/content/contact-form
Start/end date 2004 - Unknown
Still active? Yes

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