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Fly-tipper Vitor Da Silva has been fined after he failed to clear illegally dumped waste from a field in Daccombe near Newton Abbot.
A Darlington man has been given a two-year community order to incorporate 20 rehabilitation activity days and 300 hours unpaid work after magistrates in Middlesbrough sentenced him for serious waste offences.
2 men who blighted a community during lockdown by illegally storing and burning waste have been handed suspended prison sentences
Investigation by Environment Agency ends in prosecution of ex-company director.
A 40-year-old man who ignored Environment Agency warnings to stop illegally importing and burning waste at 2 Essex sites has been sent to prison for 14 months.
New figures show single-use carrier bag charge cutting plastic use and transforming how we shop.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
PJC Sweepers stung with £6,000 fine plus £14,000 in costs and compensation after Sam Dowell hired its trucks to dump earth without permit.
Condoms and cans caught in Kent containers - company admits mistakes in port blunder.
The sports sector is being invited to mark Plastic Free July (1 to 31 July) with a ‘kick plastic out of sport’ social media campaign.
CCTV footage captures arriving vehicles laden with waste and then leaving empty.
Tiny fragments of paper, plastic and wood among rubbish piled 20 metres high.
A Stop Notice has been issued by the Environment Agency to a Norfolk landowner to halt the unauthorised deposit and burning of waste following a major fire last month (May).
Company director piled up more than 2,000 tonnes of illegal rubbish.
A man has been fined over £5,000 after he burnt waste illegally for months on end at his Cambridgeshire home.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted an illegal waste operator who used land near in Newark, Nottinghamshire, to burn waste in 2018.
Trevor Sieley continued to store and burn waste despite repeated warnings from Environment Agency.
Liquid waste from chemical toilets, abattoir washings and other sources was injected into fields across Cornwall and cost two men more than £240,000.
Officers from the Environment Agency joined forces with Gloucestershire Police, the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency, Gloucester City Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council on Thursday 24 March to carry out roadside vehicle s…
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a former Derbyshire farmer for burning waste without an environmental permit.
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.
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