Written question WQ99226

To directly help our communities, local authorities and businesses in tackling litter across Wales we provide funding to Keep Wales Tidy. Details on their activity in the ward of Tredegar Park and Marshfield can be found on Keep Wales Tidy’s website. It includes three community litter picking groups, three litter champions, an active litter free zone at St Joseph's RC High School and two local businesses carrying out wider community litter picking. Our funding of Keep Wales Tidy also supports wider awareness raising and behaviour change campaigns.

In relation to fly-tipping, we provide funding to Natural Resources Wales to support the Fly-tipping Action Wales programme. The team work with local authorities across Wales and have a close partnership with Newport County Council to tackle fly-tipping on the Gwent Levels. I understand they are also in regular dialogue with representatives from Marshfield Community Council. Newport County Council has recently benefitted from 10 new trail cameras to help tackle fly-tipping hotspots in their area and are continuing to make progress in addressing fly-tipping with an increase in prosecutions and enforcement activity.