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The workshop encourages creativity to deal with environmental issues like plastic waste, biodiversity, and climate change through art workshop and exhibition.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Solihull man who failed to remove waste from his land.
Lincolnshire waste crime offender must pay an extra £278k
Three defendants have been fined for their involvement in illegal waste activity in Northamptonshire, following an investigation by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a 43-year-old Staffordshire woman for failing to remove illegal waste from land in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Conditions are being put on site operations and granting an environmental permit will not impact outcome of judicial review into site's planning permission.
A County Durham man has been jailed for operating an illegal waste site in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
A man has appeared at court for failing to clear an illegal waste site for the second time – and operating another one in Middlesbrough.
Three men were arrested on 5 February as part of an investigation into the large-scale, illegal tipping of waste at the Hoads Wood SSSI in Ashford, Kent
The third National Waste Crime Survey (NWCS) is now open for three weeks to understand the scale, impact, and deterrence of waste crime across England
Rubbish later caught fire, disrupting town – Lancashire and Devon men guilty of waste crime
A man has been given two months to clear waste from an illegal site in North Yorkshire following an investigation by the Environment Agency.
PackUK launched to deliver the UK’s Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR)
Almost half of all waste collected by local authorities in 2022/23 was incinerated with resources that could be recycled being lost
So far, 11 people have been sentenced to a total of 14 years' imprisonment for their involvement in the illegal operation
Mobile phone records have helped the Environment Agency to prosecute 3 men for using a Derbyshire farm as an illegal waste site.
Court backs application to keep access restricted as criminal investigation continues
The Environment Agency has issued a Closure Notice to Walleys Quarry Ltd requiring the closure of its Newcastle-under-Lyme landfill site.
Wallington-based company fined £30,000, at Croydon magistrates' court for failing to clear site they owned of waste following numerous warnings.
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