It has cost Network Rail more than £40,000 to clear 25 lorry loads of semi-processed household rubbish dumped on land it owns in Telford last year, ravaged by fly-tipping. A team of seven workers has started to clear through the mountains of waste off the A4169 near Horsehay in Telford. The dozens of piles contains clothes, food packaging, toys and even… Read More
The former owner of a van has been fined in a duty of care case after waste in the vehicle when it was sold was later fly-tipped. Wycombe Magistrates Court heard that an enforcement officer from Buckinghamshire County Council found a pile of waste dumped at Iver in August 2016. Wayne Johnson, 31, of Langley, Berkshire, sold a Ford Transit… Read More
The boss of a North West recycling firm has been jailed for crimes against the environment. Barry Kilroe is starting a 15 month sentence after the rubbish he was paid to recycle was left untouched at sites across the country. Two huge fires broke out at two of the sites leaving Firefighters battling for weeks to bring the infernos under… Read More
A man has been ordered to pay almost £2,000 for fly-tipping rubbish in a farm gateway. Oliver Pidhorodeckyj, of Pine Tree House, Sykes Lane, Balderston, Newark, was convicted of depositing waste near a farm on the B1178 at Bracebridge Heath on 5 April last year without a permit. The 33-year-old denied the charge, but after hearing evidence from witnesses who… Read More
New national research reveals that rural businesses are putting themselves at risk of waste crime due to fundamental lack of understanding of key legislation. Agricultural businesses and rural land owners throughout the UK are bearing the brunt of waste crime, with almost a third (32%) suffering incidents of fly-tipping on their land, according to the “right Waste right Place” duty… Read More
Rural businesses and landowners across the UK are putting themselves at risk of waste crime due to a ‘fundamental lack’ of regulatory knowledge. This was the message from the ‘Right Waste, Right Place’ campaign, which has commissioned a survey into how businesses in the countryside respond to illegal dumping of waste. Landowners are often faced with costly clean-up costs when… Read More
With its sculpted gardens and ancient pastures, Enville Hall has enchanted visitors for generations. But the ancestral home of the Earls of Stamford and Warrington in rural Shropshire is now counting the cost of the fly-tipping epidemic engulfing Britain. Balaclava-clad intruders used bolt-cutters to break into the estate last week and dump up to 200 tons of rubbish in woodland…. Read More
The number of fly-tipping incidents recorded in the UK has reached the highest level since 2010, latest Defra figures show. Some 936,000 incidents took place in 2015-16, up from 900,000 the previous year and the third consecutive annual increase. This is lower, however, than the first three sets of annual figures which included a total of 1,284,000 in 2008. Some… Read More
The Environment Agency has urged landowners in the North East of England to be vigilant, after 600 bales of residual waste were found dumped on a premises in County Durham last week (10 February). Officers from the Agency and Durham Police attended the scene, on a former foundry in Tow Law, after being alerted to activities taking place at the… Read More
The London borough of Bromley is set to acquire the land of the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington with the aim of clearing the area, which remains a persistent fire hazard. The Cornwall Drive site has been under scrutiny from authorities for years, due to the storage of thousands of tonnes of waste and a large number of fires, which… Read More