Cracking down on waste crime

Waste crime poses a serious threat to the environment, contaminating land and rivers with oil and toxic chemicals. Illegal waste sites can also pose a risk to human health and blight communities, threatening air quality with toxic fumes from illegally burnt materials and by causing noise and odour problems from operations near homes and schools.

The people operating these illegal sites are also undercutting legitimate busniesses and undermine the industry.

The Environment Agency works with the police and other enforcement agencies to put waste criminals out of business and take back the profits of their crimes.

This film gives more information about our work to crack down on waste criminals.

For more information, visit: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/news/135454.aspx

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• waste
• crime
• enforcement
• environment
• agency
• police
• poca

[EnvironmentAgencyTV]

Hi Malossiflossy, we're sorry to hear that you didn't have a good experience. We're always keen to receive information about potential waste crime. If you'd like to speak to someone about this, you can call our incident team 24/7 for free on 0800 807060.

[malossiflossy]

I contacted EA about waste dumped by my former employer that I suspected was later buried by another manager. This occurred in a SSSI site. I received a very frosty response from a woman at Kent EA who hardly sounded interested and ultimately nothing was done about it.