‘Fly tipping is completely unacceptable. It scars our streets and green spaces, attracts anti-social behaviour, damages pride in local areas and costs taxpayers millions every year.’
‘New crackdown unites government, regulators, police, local government, and Mayors against criminal gangs behind illegal waste sites.’
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‘Waste crime isn’t fly-tipping. It’s a billion-pound criminal enterprise in which organised crime groups exploit the waste industry to launder money, evade tax, undercut legitimate businesses, and pollute communities and the environment, while presenting themselves as lawful operators.
That’s the work of the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC).
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‘As part of a major crackdown on waste crime, new legislation will increase the maximum fine for fly-tipping waste to £5,000 – a 400% uplift from the previous level of £1,000. The top fine for littering on streets will also be increased to £750 – up 50%.
Coming into force this summer, the increased fines will act as a stronger deterrent and help reduce cases of littering and fly-tipping. Local authorities will be able to hand down harsher penalties, reflecting the real harm that waste criminals cause to the communities and environment that they ruthlessly disregard. ’
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‘An Environment Agency investigation into a Devon waste dumping site has concluded after four convictions for waste dumping.
Registered waste carriers have a duty of care to ensure that they know where they are sending their waste and take steps to ensure that their waste is handled by legal sites.
Anyone who suspects illegal waste activity can report it anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.’
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‘Every year, millions of tonnes of household rubbish, construction rubble, chemical drums, asbestos and tyres are illegally dumped across the UK by organised criminal networks operating in the waste sector. These are not opportunists with a bag of rubbish or a discarded mattress leaning on a lamppost. These are professional operations that charge businesses and households for waste collection, pocket the money, and dump the waste wherever they can.’
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‘Your household waste must be disposed of correctly.
If you’re giving it to someone else, you must make sure that they’re legally allowed to take it.
You could be fined if you give your household waste to someone who is not legally allowed to take it.’
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‘Fly-tippers could lose their driving licence if they are caught blighting streets or the countryside with waste now that powerful legislation is set to come into force giving the courts new powers.
The move is a central part of the government’s Waste Crime Action Plan, which sets out a wide-ranging crackdown on waste criminals, from those dumping rubbish on high streets and roadsides to operators running large illegal waste sites.’
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‘Waste criminals are running out of places to hide as the government launches its Digital Waste Tracking service to follow every piece of permitted waste across the country in real time.
As part of its major crackdown on waste crime under the government’s Waste Crime Action Plan, new laws being laid in parliament will require businesses to create a real-time audit trail for the waste they handle.
The service will become mandatory for permitted waste receiving sites in England, Northern Ireland and Wales from October 2026 and Scotland in January 2027, giving businesses time to prepare for the new requirements. Phase 1 will apply to around 12,000 permitted waste receiving sites. As the service expands, over 100,000 operators are set to be in scope.’
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‘Devon waste carrier David Gorton has been told to pay £17,527 after he deposited waste at a site near Kingsteignton in Devon which was operating illegally.
Thousands of tonnes of mixed construction and demolition waste was found at the premises.
It was estimated it would cost at least £2.5M to remediate the site, which sits on a flood plain.
Registered waste carriers have a duty of care to ensure that they know where they are sending their waste and take steps to ensure that their waste is handled by legal sites.’
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‘Waste companies that operate in Bristol, Cornwall and Devon investigated over waste regulations and will pay £28,500 to environmental charities.
The companies have agreed to invest in local projects in a sanction known as an enforcement undertaking. An enforcement undertaking can be used as an alternative to a prosecution and allows money to go directly to good causes.’
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