Great Yarmouth £40m tidal defence project gets underway

Today (10 January 2019) marks the start of work on an innovative £40 million project to upgrade vital flood defences in Great Yarmouth.




Oxfordshire wood-chipping company caused fire-risk

Boss gets director ban after firm stored 4 times the legal amount of waste wood.




Waste manager receives prison sentence for flouting the law

The manager of a waste transfer station has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence for running an illegal waste site at Torpoint, Cornwall.




Have your say on proposed Rivenhall waste site permit decision

People are being invited to have their say on the Environment Agency's proposal to revise a permit previously granted for a waste management facility.




Brothers sentenced for £1.48 million electronic waste fraud

The Environment Agency's specialist crime unit uncovered fictitious claims for the recycling of approximately 10,600 tonnes of electronic waste