Applications from Orkney invited as flytipping fund opens

Applications are being invited for a new £75,000 fund, launched this week by Zero Waste Scotland, to help transform local areas blighted by illegal flytipping.

Grants of between £500 and £10,000 will be available to community groups, landowners and land managers in the Orkney area, who are consistently battling the problem of unlawfully dumped waste, such as furniture, TVs, white goods and garden and commercial waste.

The scheme is administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful on behalf of Zero Waste Scotland, with support from the Scottish Flytipping Forum, and the deadline for applications is 31 August 2012.

Applications to the fund can be made at www.dumbdumpers.org/smallgrantscheme