The Environment Agency is to review the cost of its permits and business charges after launching a public consultation.

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Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a call for evidence for a single-use plastics tax and committed an extra £30 million to the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime in his Autumn Budget Statement.

A man has been arrested by Environment Agency and Nottinghamshire Police in connection to an illegal waste fire that burned for two weeks in Nottinghamshire in September 2016.

Welsh environmental regulator Natural Resources Wales has announced that Clare Pillman will take over as its next Chief Executive in February.

The Environment Minister Therese Coffey has announced plans to almost double the maximum fines for littering to claw back some of the £800 million paid every year by the taxpayer.

A Polish couple have been charged with slavery offences at Birmingham magistrates court following allegations that a 47-year-old was trafficked to a recycling plant in Birmingham and forced to work for a pittance.

The owner of Swindon-based company Melksham Metals must pay back £2 million he made from illegal waste activities or face eight years in prison.

The LGA has called for more manufacturers to provide take-back services for furniture and mattresses after Defra announced that cash-strapped local authorities spent an estimated £57.7 million on clearing up fly-tipping in 2016/17.

Environment agency officers visited more than 100 sites across Berkshire and Buckinghamshire this week as part of a crack-down on waste crime and and safe waste disposal by businesses.