The huge cost of fly-tipping in St Helens over the past two years
DEALING with fly-tipping has cost St Helens Council approximately £570,000 over the past two years.
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DEALING with fly-tipping has cost St Helens Council approximately £570,000 over the past two years.
Environment Agency waste crime prosecutions have fallen from a high of 800 per year to just 50 in recent years
The Audit Office has called on Defra to "better understand the relationship" between landfill tax and incentives to commit waste crime.
The recycling minister has defended the government’s response to waste crime after the NAO warned of the scale of organised crime in the sector.
Government does not have the data it needs to assess the scale of waste crime in England, and the incentives for criminals to enter the waste market have increased, according to the National Audi