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 ... read more
Man fined £2,000 for fly-tipping in farm gateway
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 ... read more
Rural Businesses Putting Themselves At Risk Of Waste Crime
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 ... read more
Landowners ‘at risk’ of breaching waste rules
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 ... read more
On an idyllic country estate, the shocking toll of fly-tipping gangs who despoil Britain
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 ... read more
Fly-tipping at six-year high
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 ... read more