tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/search/news-and-communications 2025-07-09T15:41:29+01:00 HM Government tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/skip-company-to-pay-over-48000-for-operating-illegal-waste-site 2025-07-09T15:41:29+01:00

A Birmingham skip hire company must pay financial penalties of more than £48,000 after the Environment Agency brought a prosecution for operating illegally.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/sweeper-hire-and-hoses-boss-philip-liley-gets-suspended-sentence 2025-07-08T15:01:46+01:00

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.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/waste-company-prosecuted-for-ignoring-audit-at-notts-site 2025-07-03T10:25:31+01:00

A Midlands-based waste company and a partner in the business have been prosecuted for failing to comply with a demand for information about materials accepted.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/oldbury-turbine-hall-free-of-electrical-hazards 2025-07-01T13:50:40+01:00

A complex decommissioning project to cut over 750 electrical cables to isolate Oldbury site's turbine hall power supply has been safely completed.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/2-brothers-and-father-pay-over-50000-in-confiscation-orders 2025-06-17T15:57:41+01:00

The Environment Agency has successfully secured confiscation orders for over £50,000 for storing illegal material on a site in Skegness, Lincolnshire.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/mvv-environmental-gets-permit-for-canford-energy-from-waste-site 2025-06-11T15:00:39+01:00

Environmental permit sets out strict conditions on operation of the proposed site at Poole in Dorset

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/officers-start-digging-into-hazardous-waste-soil-crime 2025-06-11T14:31:11+01:00

Hauliers in Devon and Cornwall will be asked for more detail on how they deal with waste soils.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/sizewell-a-delivers-landmark-demolition-project 2025-06-02T13:00:05+01:00

The turbine hall and adjoining structures at Sizewell A former nuclear power station have been safely razed to the ground by Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS).

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/public-urged-to-report-suspected-waste-crime-as-new-heatmaps-published 2025-05-28T00:00:00+01:00

New maps published showing nearly 17,000 reports of waste crime across England in 2023 and 2024, demonstrating offending is rife

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/waste-packaging-company-director-pays-high-price-in-data-fraud 2025-05-21T14:52:30+01:00

A Birmingham-based director and his company has been ordered to pay a Proceeds of Crime confiscation order, fines and costs totalling £476,995. 

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/environment-agency-secures-over-526k-in-proceeds-of-crime-case 2025-05-21T13:40:11+01:00

An illegal enterprise in catalytic converters has brought confiscation orders for £526,215.04, at a Proceeds of Crime Award hearing.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/man-given-suspended-jail-term-for-illegal-lincolnshire-waste-site 2025-05-12T16:13:39+01:00

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Lincolnshire man for running an illegal waste site at Thorpe Farm, Skendleby, in East Lindsey.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/hertfordshire-waste-boss-to-pay-79000-gained-from-illegal-sites 2025-05-09T14:17:09+01:00

Quarry director let waste mountains pile up way beyond legal amount. Enough waste at one site to nearly fill the Royal Albert Hall 3 times

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/company-and-director-fined-for-burning-waste-on-rural-land 2025-04-17T10:01:37+01:00

A company and its director have been fined for ignoring Environment Agency warnings to stop burning waste on rural land in West Yorkshire.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/final-consultation-opened-on-canford-incinerator-proposals 2025-04-11T00:00:00+01:00

This is the final Environment Agency consultation on plans for the proposed site, so don’t miss your chance to give us any new and relevant information.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/environment-agency-secures-proceeds-of-crime-award-for-313382 2025-04-04T10:33:10+01:00

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.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/environment-agency-grants-permit-for-whitestone-landfill-site 2025-04-03T17:25:02+01:00

The environmental permit sets out strict conditions on operation of the proposed inert landfill site at Lower Hare Farm

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-rules-simplifying-recycling-for-workplaces-in-england-come-into-force 2025-03-31T00:01:06+01:00

New regulations requiring businesses to separate recycling from waste come into effect

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/creative-workshop-on-environmental-pollution-underway-in-auki-malaita 2025-03-27T07:58:37+00:00

The workshop encourages creativity to deal with environmental issues like plastic waste, biodiversity, and climate change through art workshop and exhibition.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/just-two-weeks-to-go-for-many-businesses-to-submit-2024-packaging-data-for-pepr 2025-03-17T10:13:29+00:00

Obligated businesses must submit 2024 packaging data by 1 April 2025 under new extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR) scheme