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

• Updated: 11 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

POCA hearing orders Michael William Leah to pay £54,900. Sum to be paid within three months. When he was convicted of six offences in 2011 he paid only £100

• Updated: 11 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

Abdul Monir found guilty of running an illegal waste transfer station and depositing waste on Network Rail land. Monir also ordered to pay £2,000 compensation.

• Updated: 2 February 2024

Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK as part of ambitious government plans to tackle the rise in youth vaping and protect children’s health.

• Updated: 28 January 2024

A North Yorkshire man has received a suspended prison sentence for the illegal deposit of waste on the River Swale flood plain.

• Updated: 24 January 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

The Environment Agency has blocked access to the site in Ashford, Kent, to prevent further 'illegal' tipping.

• 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

From today, households no longer have to pay to get rid of DIY waste at council recycling centres

• Updated: 1 January 2024

Fines, costs, and compensation total £20,391. Magistrates say the offence was committed for ‘greed and profit’

• Updated: 8 December 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