COUNCILS in Victoria spent an eye–watering $89 million responding to the dumping of illegal waste in 2019/20, with ratepayers left to foot the hefty clean–up bill.
Worse still, only a handful of these waste crime perpetrators were punished or prosecuted, despite it happening a lot in our own backyard, and the High Country.
These were among the stand–out results of first of its kind researc...
