A NEW crackdown on fly-tipping is being launched in West Yorkshire.

The Country Landowners Association (CLA) has urged Yorkshire victims of fly-tipping to report incidents on a national database which highlights the environmental crime.

The association is working with the Landowner Partnership to record incidents of fly-tipping on the Government database, Flycapture.

The project has been set up to encourage every farmer, land owner and land manager to report fly-tipping.

CLA President and Yorkshire landowner William Worsley said: “We’re pleased to see the Government take fly-tipping so seriously.

“Recent pilot schemes have highlighted the problems faced when reporting fly-tipping, so to get a true picture of the scale of the problem on private land, the Flycapture project has rolled out across the country until September.”

To report incidences of fly-tipping in your area, visit www.cla.org.uk/In_Your_Area/