Flytipping has incresaed by a hundred percent in some parts of Somerset since charges and changes to opening hours were introduced at certain recycling centres.

Sedgemoor District Council have reported a hundred and forty-one cases this April, compared to a monthly average of seventy-one throughout last year.

Somerset Waste Partnership say the rubbish ends up at landfill at the cost to the taxpayer of seventy-five pounds per tonne.