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None of the sites used to store baled waste had any relevant environmental permissions.
Cats and Dust Ltd, its director Cavin Mears, and former director Stephen Bryce prosecuted for operating waste sites without the required environmental permits.
5 men convicted of offences in connection with an illegal waste site at Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, have had confiscation orders totalling £74,751.16.
Patricia Hills, from Bootle, has been ordered to pay back £250,000. She was previously jailed for operating MWM Recycling Ltd illegally.
Pair dumped waste close to river, farmland and houses
Muddy tracks led to nearby house where excavation work had taken place. Environment Agency prosecution resulted in fines and costs totalling £6,400.
Environment Agency publishes results of National Waste Crime Survey 2025, showing almost three quarters of all waste crimes go unreported
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
A Birmingham skip hire company must pay financial penalties of more than £48,000 after the Environment Agency brought a prosecution for operating illegally.
Exeter man tried to hide tons of illegal waste kept on leased land by pushing it into the trees and spreading it across the ground.
New analysis reveals largest budget for Environment Agency’s water regulation in history
Waste management experts drive first batches of harmful material away from nationally significant nature site
The Environment Agency has successfully secured confiscation orders for over £50,000 for storing illegal material on a site in Skegness, Lincolnshire.
52 councils across the UK will receive funding to remove chewing gum stains and clean up our streets
Hauliers in Devon and Cornwall will be asked for more detail on how they deal with waste soils.
New maps published showing nearly 17,000 reports of waste crime across England in 2023 and 2024, demonstrating offending is rife
Environment Agency and Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Organised Crime Unit apprehend a 34-year-old man in Leeds
An illegal enterprise in catalytic converters has brought confiscation orders for £526,215.04, at a Proceeds of Crime Award hearing.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Lincolnshire man for running an illegal waste site at Thorpe Farm, Skendleby, in East Lindsey.
Waste criminals, fly-tippers and cowboy waste operators to have vehicles seized and crushed
The Environment Agency has secured a proceeds of crime judgment for £313,382.45 against men from Northampton who ran an illegal waste tyre site.
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