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The report for Defra's Export green list waste alpha assessment on the 1st of July 2021
The Joint Unit for Waste Crime celebrates its first anniversary of cracking down on criminals and gangs who commit serious and organised waste crime.
A van linked to waste dumped illegally across London has been seized and crushed by the Environment Agency.
Multi-agency visits target rise in theft of cabling and catalytic converters.
Tough action is example of Environment Agency's new powers to combat illegal waste activity.
A Cambridgeshire illegal waste site the size of a football pitch has been swooped on by the Environment Agency as part of work to shut it down for good.
Company director piled up more than 2,000 tonnes of illegal rubbish.
Peter Outlaw, 36, has been banned from dealing in most forms of waste and ordered to pay more than £5,000 for illegally storing and burning mixed waste.
Two former company directors have been fined more than £22,000 and £19,000 in costs.
Essex residents are being urged to get rid of their waste properly after around 8 houses-worth of rubbish was discovered illegally dumped in Chelmsford.
Pioneering research set to curb harmful threats to marine biodiversity
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Employment Tribunal decision.
First national conference discusses one of UK's biggest infrastructure programmes
A new exhibition by Joshua Sofaer exploring plastic waste and the work of the Environment Agency.
BRC Haulage Ltd and its director fined for moving waste in and out of illegal Northampton waste site.
Peter Higgins given suspended sentence for illegally storing and burning waste at Gedney Dyke.
Facebook users in Cambridgeshire that use unregistered waste carriers could find themselves ‘accidental criminals’, warns the Environment Agency.
An investigation by the Environment Agency has begun into 4 abandoned trailers full of waste that have appeared around Bromsgrove in the space of a week.
Multi-agency operation sees 36 vehicles stopped and waste collectors’ paperwork checked.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a 31-year-old man from Nottingham who was operating as an unlicensed waste carrier.
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