National waste crime survey 2025
Results and findings from the Environment Agency's waste crime survey for 2025.
Applies to England
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The Environment Agency uses a National Waste Crime Survey to gather insights from the waste industry and potential victims of waste crime. This provides information on the nature and the scale of waste crime, as well as how the Environment Agency is perceived in tackling it.
Members of the waste industry, landowners and farmers and service providers are invited to complete the survey anonymously online. Therefore, the respondents are a self-selecting group, focussing on their own experiences of waste crime.
The first survey was run in a pilot in 2020, with repeat iterations run in 2021 and 2023. The results of the fourth survey are shared here, summarising the experience of 764 respondents, and illustrate the persistent scale of waste crime in 2025.