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Boss gets director ban after firm stored 4 times the legal amount of waste wood.
The manager of a waste transfer station has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence for running an illegal waste site at Torpoint, Cornwall.
Officers from the Environment Agency have found an unusual way to highlight the plastic waste problem on beaches.
Tips and information to encourage people to minimise waste this Christmas
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Two UK companies awarded share of the government's £20 million GovTech Catalyst fund.
A South Shields man has been ordered to pay over £6,000 after a hearing last week at South Tyneside Magistrates Court.
Consistently high performance is rewarded with another honour at RoSPA Awards.
Lorries and vans checked for correct documents.
Honduras joined five Commonwealth countries in attending a high-level dialogue in Belize City from 4-6 September in order to take action on plastics entering the oceans.
Guatemala joined five Commonwealth countries in attending a high-level dialogue in Belize City from 4-6 September in order to take action to reduce plastics entering the oceans.
£1-million is available to develop novel prototype systems for waste bioprocessing.
More than 100 young people learned about reducing pollution and solid waste in Guatemala over a two day of workshop.
The Environment Agency has this week carried out one of its biggest ever vehicle seizure operations in England.
Father and sister also convicted
DASA are seeking proposals to develop a Bioprocessing Prototype System to recycle military waste, oils, fuel and other liquid waste, into reusable products.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Running an illegal waste site in Norfolk has cost a man £520 after he was fined at Norwich Crown Court.
Soiled nappies, clothing and videotape among items labelled waste paper bound for China
A man from New Balderton, Newark has been sentenced to pay £4,219.53 after he was found guilty in his absence of transporting controlled waste without a licence in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Third man gets suspended sentence and night curfew following waste crime convictions.
Cambridge Crown Court imposes multiple penalties for the illegal storage of more than 5,300 tonnes of mixed waste wood at a site in Cambridgeshire.
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