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Reforms to household and business bin collections and a crackdown on unscrupulous waste carriers will boost recycling rates and protect the environment

• Updated: 21 October 2023

Environment Agency launches consultation on updating charges for regulating notified international waste shipments

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Court told director and his company had no environmental permit. Judge said case was a flagrant breach of law.

• Updated: 29 September 2023

NWS engaging with three other communities about hosting a GDF

• Updated: 28 September 2023

Figures show massive decrease in number of single-use bags sold by main retailers since 2014.

• Updated: 31 July 2023

Extended producer responsibility scheme deferred for a year until October 2025

• Updated: 25 July 2023

Land was covered by exemption certificate allowing some waste to be stored, but not the huge amounts that led to the prosecution

• Updated: 20 July 2023

A company which flouted the rules to store highly flammable tyres on a Northamptonshire site has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,463.

• Updated: 11 July 2023

Environment Agency survey of informed stakeholders suggests 18% of all waste in England may be illegally managed

• Updated: 6 July 2023

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Scunthorpe-based company and a director for operating an illegal waste facility.

• Updated: 3 July 2023

The British High Commission Nairobi is inviting bids for the provision of waste collection and management services.

• Updated: 22 June 2023

Charges to dispose of DIY waste at household waste recycling centres will be removed.

• Updated: 18 June 2023

West Yorkshire man gets director ban after unlawful business that saw sons jailed.

• Updated: 13 June 2023

Apps offering waste disposal services are a new and emerging risk - make sure you know your duty of care obligations.

• Updated: 5 June 2023

A conman who toured England to deceive customers over the disposal of harmful asbestos has been ordered to pay back £82,100.

• Updated: 30 May 2023

Man’s 40 destinations of deception read like an A-Z, including several locations in the South East.

• Updated: 24 May 2023

2 men operating from a Skegness waste site have been jailed and a third sentenced after the Environment Agency found they were storing material illegally.

• Updated: 24 May 2023

A father who ran an illegal waste business with his son at their home in Cornwall was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence by magistrates.

• Updated: 22 May 2023

A man has been fined and ordered to pay costs and victim surcharge after ignoring repeated warnings at a site in Worksop.

• Updated: 28 April 2023

An Essex waste company and its directors have been fined more than £20,000 after they stored tonnes of waste illegally at a site in Braintree.

• Updated: 17 April 2023