The Welsh Government has set the rates for its new devolved Landfill Disposals Tax, maintaining the UK’s standard rate but adding a new band for unauthorised disposals to provide a deterrent against waste crime.

A Huntingdon bin lorry driver has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after being charged with dangerous driving in an incident that caused life-changing injuries to two of his colleagues.

BBC favourite Reggie Yates sheds light on the issue of illegal electronic waste dumping by spending a week at a toxic waste dump in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, as part of his documentary series, ‘The Insider.’

The Trades Union Congress has supported an emergency motion condemning Birmingham City Council’s decision to go back on an Acas-brokered deal with Unite following the resignation of council leader John Clancy over his handling of the bin dispute.

The incoming Welsh Landfill Disposal Tax, one of the first new Welsh taxes in almost 800 years, received Royal Assent last week, hastening its introduction west of the border.

Anti-social behavior, assaults and threats against officers have led to the Environment Agency trialing body cameras for North-East enforcement officers.

More than 1.5 million tonnes of illegal hazardous waste materials have been uncovered along with new transportation networks, by a global operation led by international crime agency INTERPOL.

Two former waste company directors have been ordered to pay over  £750,000, one of North Wales’s largest ever fines, following the illegal storage of over 4,000 tonnes of waste.

The Environment Agency has vowed to crack down on illegal waste export activity at ports after officers conducted an intelligence-gathering operation in Essex.

Essex-based waste company T J Cottis Transport has been fined just under £20,000 for knowingly depositing waste illegally to act as flood defences on protected farm land in Essex.