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Waste crime reporting in England: heat maps

These maps show where people in England are calling from to report waste crime to the Environment Agency.

Applies to England

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These heat maps show the most common locations of people reporting waste crime to the Environment Agency:

  • across England
  • for each Environment Agency operational area

The data covers reports to the Environment Agency’s incident hotline number from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025.

Updates to this page

Published 2 September 2026
Last updated 2 September 2026 Show all updates
  1. The description for each area map has been updated to clarify that they show the hot spots of waste crimes reported in the Environment Agency's operational area and parts of neighbouring operational areas.

  2. First published.

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