News and communications

New approach puts an end to confusing recycling and excessive bins

• Updated: 9 May 2024

Richmond perfume firm in fees fault – but Surrey wildlife the winner.

• Updated: 11 April 2024

Amended charges for international waste shipments come into force as of 1 April 2024

• Updated: 2 April 2024

Officers from the Environment Agency and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime visited two landfill sites in the north of England in a day of action.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

Last week 25 school children from Gizo and Emmanuel schools, Western province, completed 3 days of plastic art creation at the Gizo School Hall.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

A Northumberland man who made his neighbours’ lives a misery during lockdown by storing and burning waste on an illegal waste site has been sentenced.

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Local wildlife trusts to receive a £20,000+ windfall.

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Pensioner's Poltimore piles prison punishment.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

Environment Agency officers blocked by operator

• Updated: 6 February 2024

James Mete's family found were guilty of running illegal waste site in 2019. Mete sentenced after police catch up with him after he absconded whilst on bail.

• Updated: 19 January 2024

A 61-year-old man who repeatedly ignored Environment Agency warnings about depositing, storing and treating waste illegally has been jailed.

• Updated: 17 January 2024

Slurry from Bycott Farm near Tiverton ran into a stream causing pollution for at least 2 months, a court heard on Thursday 11 January. 

• Updated: 12 January 2024

A man who was jailed for illegally importing and burning waste in Essex has been ordered to pay costs of £85,000.

• Updated: 12 January 2024

Government will make it easier for people and businesses to reuse and recycle their old electrical goods

• Updated: 28 December 2023

Former company director from Epping given community sentence and £4,000 costs for illegally dumping waste in Gerrards Cross.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

The Environment Agency is urging businesses and the public to help in the fight against waste crime.

• Updated: 27 November 2023

A tyre dealer and repairer has been prosecuted for failing to submit waste transfer notes when asked to move 844 tyres from his Derbyshire base.

• Updated: 21 November 2023

Brothers’ prison terms and director bans for multiple illegal waste sites

• Updated: 14 November 2023

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