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Prolific waste crime offender, John Leslie Allison, has been ordered to pay £368,682.50 under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
A range of polluting single-use plastics will be banned from October 2023 following the Government's consultation
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The Environment Agency revoked a trader’s licence to carry waste after he was convicted of fly-tipping, burning waste and false advertising on Facebook.
The Environment Agency and Kent Police road stop led to £2,300 of fixed penalty fines being issued.
The UK Government will attend the first negotiations meeting in Uruguay for a global plastics treaty
Whites Recycling Limited fined £36,000 for breaching environmental permit and unlawfully storing waste.
Waste facility accepted responsibility for releasing contaminated liquid into groundwater.
On Monday 10th October 2022, the UK Government and the Government of Ghana held a Carbon Market Development Roundtable at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra.
An operation to extinguish an ongoing fire at a green waste composting site in Bedlington, will commence today under close supervision by the Environment Agency.
Guy Fawkes’ Night is a calendar highlight. But if you’re going to celebrate it, go to an organised event rather than risk being a “bonfire bandit”.
A Barnsley landowner faces financial penalties of over £5,000 after failing to comply with an Environment Agency notice to keep and serve Waste Transfer Notes.
Children from Perch Christian School, Tuvarufu, Koloale, Honiara Integrated Community School and Coronation schools attended a two-day UK-Pacific Oceans and Plastics workshop in Honiara.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Students from across Honiara took part in a special creative art workshop on Ocean Plastics from Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 October 2022.
The Environment Agency has released guidance setting out how port and harbour managers can protect marine life by responsibly managing resources and waste.
A van linked to waste dumped illegally across London has been seized and crushed by the Environment Agency.
A Restriction Order has been issued to prohibit access to and the bringing in of waste into a set area of land in Clenchwarton.
Fly-tipper Vitor Da Silva has been fined after he failed to clear illegally dumped waste from a field in Daccombe near Newton Abbot.
A Darlington man has been given a two-year community order to incorporate 20 rehabilitation activity days and 300 hours unpaid work after magistrates in Middlesbrough sentenced him for serious waste offences.
Investigation by Environment Agency ends in prosecution of ex-company director.
New figures show single-use carrier bag charge cutting plastic use and transforming how we shop.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
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