The Los Angeles City Council voted Aug. 25 to crack down on illegal dumping in the city, an issue that has been brewing over the last few years.   Under the measure, the city will reconvene an interdepartmental group who will focus on targeting dumping after a report from the Los Angeles Controller’s office in March found that illegal dumping of trash and hazardous waste in the city increased 450 percent from 2016 to 2020.   Controller Ron Galperin’s report also noted that sanitation crews picked up 14,500 tons of solid waste in the first eight months of 2020—an increase from 9,200 tons in 2016, with some areas seeing 500 percent to 600 percent increases.   A spokesperson for Galperin told the Epoch Times in an email the city is cleaning up more trash each year, but not deterring people from dumping it.   Galperin’s called on the city to take action to eliminate illegal …