Two Illegal 'Putrid Stink' Waste Sites Shut Down

Food seller not inspected for seven years in Welsh county

Carmarthenshire Council has a huge backlog in inspections due to struggles to recruit qualified staff. But it says there are very few overdue visits at highest-risk premises

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dumpThis country’s a dump. I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean it literally. From the point of view of criminal waste gangs, it is one big potential landfill. The chances of being caught range between minimal and nonexistent, and the penalties are mostly laughable. Successive governments have given criminals a licence to print money.Last week…

Swanage group urges action at Parliament to tackle throwaway culture

Repair Cafe Swanage & Purbeck joins UK repair groups at Parliament, urging policies to boost repair and reuse, tackle waste, and support the…

Council chief urges govt to pay for illegal waste dump clean up

THE cost of the clean up of a huge illegal waste dump should be covered by the government, according to the leader of Knowsley Council.

Council slams dirty restaurant condition posing ‘unacceptable risk to health’

THE council has slammed the dirty condition of a Warrington restaurant as posing an ‘unacceptable risk to health’.

Police vow ‘hostile environment’ for county's criminal dump gangsters

Police say by using dodgy waste disposal services, residents could be helping drugs reach their communities, and funding the theft of plant, tools,…