A 73-year old businessman from Middlesbrough has been given a suspended sentence after negligent environmental practices caused a waste fire that destroyed his firm.

The campaign to inform businesses of their obligations to correctly dispose of their waste now has 23 ambassador organisations spreading the message to suppliers, customers and members of these organisations.

Bidwell Metals Ltd will close its scrapyard in Radstock, Somerset, after a judicial review deemed residents’ noise complaints to be sufficient to force its closure.

The Environment Agency is investigating the possibility of a link between lorry-loads of waste that have been dumped in 20 locations across Essex.

The directors of two waste companies in Swindon and North Wales have been banned and given suspended prison sentences after fires alerted authorities to their unpermitted sites.

A central figure in combating illegal waste at the Environment Agency, Mat Crocker is set to join waste consultancy firm 360 Environmental after stepping down from the government regulator.

Brothers who lit two waste fires that disrupted local businesses and trainlines for weeks at a time have pleaded guilty to breaches of environmental regulations that posed a hazard to human health.

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of slavery offences after raids on two recycling facilities in Sandwell, near Birmingham.

The Chief Executive of the Environment Agency has likened waste crime to the drugs trade in the 1980s, as the environmental regulator reports that nearly 1,000 illegal waste sites were closed down last year.

A waste boss from Southampton has been imprisoned for a series of illegal waste disposal crimes, with the sentencing coming five years after a previous conviction.