Flytipping in Liverpool has rocketed by 25% since the start of lockdown and has not come down since restrictions were eased.
Liverpool Streetscene Services Limited, the body contracted by Liverpool Council, have now said the rise in flytipping, coupled by the extra waste being generated by homes as people work from home, mean the way it manages waste needs to be restructured.
Responding to a question from councillor William Shortall about flytipping in and around his Old Swan ward, chief operating officer Mike Brown told the council's neighbourhoods select committee that LSSL was still trying to grapple with the rise.
Mr Brown said: "Overall there was a 25% increase in flytipping across the city over the initial lockdown.
"We are going to have to try to address that flytipping because it hasn't gone down it has still remained the same and as people are working at home they are generating more and more waste.
"What we have noticed is that the waste capacity households are generating is exceeding some of the bin capacity that we provide and we need to address that.
"Between putting extra crews out with flytipping and dealing with the extra waste capacity, the whole service has to be restructured and changed."
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National figures appear to show nationwide problems with a rise in flytipping since March.
In Liverpool and across Merseyside, a series of huge fly tips were reported across various sites, with lower level flytipping also taking place across the city.
