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Obligated businesses must submit 2024 packaging data by 1 April 2025 under new extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR) scheme
Lincolnshire waste crime offender must pay an extra £278k
Food redistribution charities can submit applications for grants starting at £20,000
The Environment Agency-led day of action caught multiple waste criminals in the act
Three defendants have been fined for their involvement in illegal waste activity in Northamptonshire, following an investigation by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a 43-year-old Staffordshire woman for failing to remove illegal waste from land in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
PackUK invites industry experts to join key advisory groups.
Conditions are being put on site operations and granting an environmental permit will not impact outcome of judicial review into site's planning permission.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced it’s establishing a Plutonium Ceramics Academic Hub with the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield.
Trials of four innovative new security systems successfully launched at former nuclear site in Dorset.
A County Durham man has been jailed for operating an illegal waste site in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
A man has appeared at court for failing to clear an illegal waste site for the second time – and operating another one in Middlesbrough.
Three men were arrested on 5 February as part of an investigation into the large-scale, illegal tipping of waste at the Hoads Wood SSSI in Ashford, Kent
Four Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) members travelled to Andalucia to visit the El Cabril low and intermediate level nuclear waste disposal facility.
Waste including asbestos was burned next to a housing estate and ancient woodland
The Environment Agency has attained guilty pleas from two men from Preston, in connection with illegal waste activities.
The third National Waste Crime Survey (NWCS) is now open for three weeks to understand the scale, impact, and deterrence of waste crime across England
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to take forward studies and investigations in these areas
Rubbish later caught fire, disrupting town – Lancashire and Devon men guilty of waste crime
A man has been given two months to clear waste from an illegal site in North Yorkshire following an investigation by the Environment Agency.
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