Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments (Pure), which removes waste from sites used for illegal dumping, said it collected 146,580kg of waste from 890 spots in 2024.
It marked a 22% increase on the 120,000kg it found and removed in 2023.
However the volume of waste in recent years is still lower than the group’s busiest-ever year in 2008.
The group said it encountered a particularly large number of illegal dumping sites last year, including one “large-scale illegal dumping incident” that it cleaned up that involved 8,000kg of construction and demolition waste.
“We were extremely busy in 2024 and in the first four months we removed 60,000kg of illegally dumped waste, which is an increase compared to previous years,” said Pure Manager Ian Davis in a statement.
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