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Environment Agency launches consultation on updating charges for regulating notified international waste shipments
Court told director and his company had no environmental permit. Judge said case was a flagrant breach of law.
NWS engaging with three other communities about hosting a GDF
Figures show massive decrease in number of single-use bags sold by main retailers since 2014.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Extended producer responsibility scheme deferred for a year until October 2025
Land was covered by exemption certificate allowing some waste to be stored, but not the huge amounts that led to the prosecution
A company which flouted the rules to store highly flammable tyres on a Northamptonshire site has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,463.
Environment Agency survey of informed stakeholders suggests 18% of all waste in England may be illegally managed
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Scunthorpe-based company and a director for operating an illegal waste facility.
The British High Commission Nairobi is inviting bids for the provision of waste collection and management services.
Charges to dispose of DIY waste at household waste recycling centres will be removed.
West Yorkshire man gets director ban after unlawful business that saw sons jailed.
Apps offering waste disposal services are a new and emerging risk - make sure you know your duty of care obligations.
A conman who toured England to deceive customers over the disposal of harmful asbestos has been ordered to pay back £82,100.
Man’s 40 destinations of deception read like an A-Z, including several locations in the South East.
2 men operating from a Skegness waste site have been jailed and a third sentenced after the Environment Agency found they were storing material illegally.
A father who ran an illegal waste business with his son at their home in Cornwall was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence by magistrates.
A man has been fined and ordered to pay costs and victim surcharge after ignoring repeated warnings at a site in Worksop.
An Essex waste company and its directors have been fined more than £20,000 after they stored tonnes of waste illegally at a site in Braintree.
Defendant was tried in his absence after failing to appear at court last week. Evidence of persistent offending led to his conviction on 3 counts of waste crime.
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