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There has been a dramatic rise in fly-tipping in recent years Credit: Christopher Pledger Rubbish firms with government licenses are fly-tipping waste on country lanes, a Panorama investigation has found. The programme discovered that checks for licences were so lax that they could even be obtained with false names and details. It comes as Britain has seen soaring levels of fly-tipping in recent years and during the pandemic, prompting the Government to set up a dedicated unit to tackle the scourge. In a Panorama episode due to air Monday evening, reporters filled a garage in Harlow with rub...

A BBC Panorama investigation finds licensed firms involved in the dumping of rubbish.

The Environment Agency clamping down on waste carriers in Bexley. The Environment Agency have disclosed details of a crackdown on illegal waste disposal in Bexley which resulted in four penalty notices and one vehicle being seized. The operation say officers pulling over vehicles to check they were registered as waste carriers, clamping down on those disposal without proper authorisation. The operation was run by Environment Agency officers working with Bexley Council, Met Police, Openreach and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime. The Agency and its partners stopped 22 waste-carrying vehic...

Road stop in Erith halts illegal waste carriers in their tracks Vehicle seized during spot checks of waste carriers in Bexley. From: 1 February 2021 Environment Agency officers working with London Borough Of Bexley, the Met Police, Openreach and the Joint Unit For Waste Crime carried out spot checks on vehicles carrying waste Environment Agency officers working with London Borough Of Bexley, the Met Police, Openreach and the Joint Unit For Waste Crime seized a vehicle and issued 4 penalty notices while stopping vehicles carrying waste in Erith as part of Operation Cubo. The Enviro...

Corby career criminal jailed for stockpiling waste Skip man’s offences spanned a decade. From: Stephen Lack, trading as Abbey Skips, stored and burnt waste illegally A 68-year-old Corby man is behind bars after repeated waste offences spanning the course of the last decade. Stephen Lack, of Monkton Sidings, Corby, was responsible for an illegal waste site that put human health and the environment at risk. Her Honour Judge Lucking QC, sitting at Northampton Crown Court on 25 January 2021, sentenced Lack to 18 months’ immediate imprisonment after he had pleaded guilty to breachi...