UK's winter floods create 30,000 tonnes of landfill waste

Furniture, kitchen goods and carpets 'contaminated' by floodwater can't be recycled and will cost councils over an estimated 2 million in landfill tax

Almost 30,000 tonnes of damaged household goods have had to be dumped in landfill following devastating winter floods, town hall chiefs have said.

A snapshot analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) estimates councils have been landed with a 2.25m landfill tax bill as a result of the clear-up after the floods.