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The first ever waste crime summit to bring partners together in Liverpool City Region was held in Widnes.
A man has been arrested as an Environment Agency investigation into illegal waste dumping in the North East continues.
Well-loved local beauty spot in Kent cleared of 39,500 tonnes of illegal waste.
32-year-old is being questioned in connection with illegal waste sites in Peterlee and Hartlepool, County Durham.
First step in tracking waste and placing waste criminals under unprecedented scrutiny as new tracking system goes live
Environment Agency investigation ends in prosecution of company which ignored waste permit regulations and orders to stop operations on site in Birmingham.
The operator of a regulated waste facility in Sheffield who did not have an environmental permit has been handed a 39-week suspended prison sentence.
Total to pay is more than £36,000 including costs with five-year criminal behaviour order and suspended custodial sentence.
Further arrests made as part of Environment Agency investigation, supported by Surrey Police and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit
The Environment Agency has blocked access to a former quarry in West Yorkshire where waste has been dumped illegally.
The Environment Agency is investigating three North East illegal waste dumps amounting to almost 3,500 tonnes of waste.
New Environment Agency heat maps show where suspected waste crime is being reported, helping identify hotspots and target enforcement activity.
More than 22,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste have now been removed from Oxfordshire site
An illegal waste site in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, has been cleared following a successful court case brought by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency is investigating an illegal waste site at Hinckley in Leicestershire after local partners stopped further waste arriving on site.
Fly-tippers will be forced to clean up our communities and pay the costs of clearing up their mess under government plans for ‘clean up squads’.
New crackdown unites government, regulators, police, local government, and Mayors against criminal gangs behind illegal waste sites.
The Prime Minister sets out new plan to shut down the criminal gangs running illegal waste sites, as part of his pledge to bring hope back to Britain's communities.
A court order is now in place prohibiting anyone from entering or importing waste onto a site at Severnside Farm, Gloucester.
Two men have been arrested as part of an ongoing Environment Agency investigation into illegal waste dumping on a farm at Middlewich in Cheshire.
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