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Guy Fawkes’ Night is a calendar highlight. But if you’re going to celebrate it, go to an organised event rather than risk being a “bonfire bandit”.
A Barnsley landowner faces financial penalties of over £5,000 after failing to comply with an Environment Agency notice to keep and serve Waste Transfer Notes.
Children from Perch Christian School, Tuvarufu, Koloale, Honiara Integrated Community School and Coronation schools attended a two-day UK-Pacific Oceans and Plastics workshop in Honiara.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Students from across Honiara took part in a special creative art workshop on Ocean Plastics from Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 October 2022.
The Environment Agency has released guidance setting out how port and harbour managers can protect marine life by responsibly managing resources and waste.
A van linked to waste dumped illegally across London has been seized and crushed by the Environment Agency.
A Restriction Order has been issued to prohibit access to and the bringing in of waste into a set area of land in Clenchwarton.
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.
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