Local authorities in England spent £49.8 million clearing up illegally dumped waste in 2015/16, as the number of recorded cases continued its recent rise, according to new Defra stats.

A man has received a fine that could increase to nearly £1 million for his role in an illegal waste disposal operation, following an investigation that also saw his son jailed in 2016.

Environmental officers have been deployed wearing body cameras in the London Borough of Wandsworth to help tackle littering as part of a new pilot project.

Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson says residents that alert the council of fly-tippers and those not recycling properly should be rewarded, even suggesting that whistleblowers should receive refunds on their council tax.

SUEZ recycling and recovery UK has been made to pay over £500,000 in fines and costs after contaminated water from a landfill in Cornwall left two local waterways ‘smothered’ in sewage fungus.

Three companies who colluded to reduce purchase prices of used automotive batteries as part of a cartel operation have been fined a total of €68 million by the European Commission.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including jail for a London fly-tipper, executive movements at WRAP, Recycle Week 2017 and Blue Peter going green.

The Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive have joined forces in the North East to check waste sites are operating legally and safely.

Fly-tippers in Wales could be subject to on-the-spot fixed-penalty notices of up to £400, after the government proposed new, quicker punishments to ward off waste criminals.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a skip firm’s lost licence, a jail warning for a ‘shameless’ Croydon fly-tipper and the Great British Spring Clean.