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The furniture upcycler who fixed his mistake after illegally entering the waste trade

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Waste being stored illegally

Ed Troughton, Waste Crime Engagement Specialist at the Environment Agency, provides his insights into tackling the handling of illegal waste without a permit.  My three-year-old son spends most of his time making a mess. Sometimes he’ll spill food or his …

Combatting the illegal export of construction and demolition waste plastic film and wrap

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Heavily contaminated C&D film note presence of construction sand.

The EA’s Illegal Waste Exports Team (IWE) have identified an emerging issue in the illegal export of highly contaminated plastic film and wrap from the construction and demolition (C&D) sector. Following Intelligence led targeting, an increasing number of shipments of …

Why plastics used on farms is worth talking about

Since Blue Planet II there has been increasing awareness of the amount of plastic we use and it littering our land, rivers and seas but I doubt many people have thought about the plastics that are used on farms being illegally exported to countries all over the world! I certainly hadn’t until I joined the Environment Agency’s (EA) newly established Plastics and Sustainability team in 2018 inspiring positive behaviour change within the agricultural sector.