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A major project to dispose of more than 1,000 stainless steel drums of waste has successfully completed its initial rail transfer.
After two years of setbacks inflicted by the global pandemic, the Great British Spring Clean is back in full swing – and National Highways is urging road users to help slash litter levels by saving it for the bin.
Environment Agency works with partners to target hauliers moving waste in Staffordshire.
Three local initiatives in Copeland receive investment from the GDF Programme Community Investment Funding made available to benefit communities.
A consignment of intermediate-level waste has been safely delivered to its destination in Australia.
A new consultation has launched as the Environment Agency is 'minded to’ issue a permit to operate a new energy from waste incinerator in Westbury.
Electronic waste fraud case ends in convicted criminals receiving confiscation orders.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted two men who stored more than 26,000 cubic metres of waste illegally at a site on land next to the M54 motorway.
The UK provided support to kick start negotiations on a legally binding treaty on plastic pollution at the United Nations Environment Assembly.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Martin Ward pleaded guilty to dumping waste in Charlton, Greenwich, Lambeth and Peckham.
A man from County Durham has been ordered to pay £1,251 in fines and costs for obstructing and abusing Environment Agency officers who wanted to conduct a site inspection.
The public consultation is in response to an application by BAE Systems Marine Ltd for Barrow Shipyards site in Cumbria.
A man who spent 20 months dumping waste on a field has been given three months to clear up his mess.
The Environment Agency will consult on its draft decision to vary environmental permitting conditions for Walleys Quarry Landfill, Cemetery Road, Silverdale, Newcastle under Lyme.
Company pays £17,600 to Bradgate Park Trust’s Jubilee Woodland project.
Discussions underway with a number of communities about geological disposal
Our construction projects on the Sellafield site are seeing milestones smashed and targets beaten as they take full advantage of a new way of delivering the infrastructure needed to deliver our purpose.
Four organisations have been announced as winners of this year’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority group supply chain awards.
A key facility needed to store legacy waste has taken another step closer to receiving waste.
An online initiative calling on Hampshire’s coastal and river communities to collect and record litter found across the Solent is now live.
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