Nearly 30 illegal waste 'super sites' revealed in new government watchlist
A new government watchlist has identified nearly 30 illegal waste 'super sites' in England, each containing significant amounts of rubbish. The Environment Agency has published a list of 117 high-priority illegal waste sites, highlighting those posing serious environmental risks. Local business owners express skepticism about the effectiveness of the agency's actions to address the issue of illegal waste dumping.
- ▪The watchlist includes 28 'super sites' with over 20,000 tonnes of waste each.
- ▪The largest site is a 281,000-tonne heap of contaminated soil in Northwich, Cheshire.
- ▪The Environment Agency has identified about 700 illegal waste sites in total, with 117 marked as high priority.
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Nearly 30 illegal waste 'super sites' revealed in new government watchlistJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMalcolm Priorrural affairs producerGetty ImagesThe locations of 117 illegal waste sites have been revealed on a new national watchlistNearly 30 suspected illegal waste "super sites", each containing tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish, have been identified in a new watchlist of dumps in England.The list of 117 "high priority" sites, published by the Environment Agency (EA) on Friday, includes 28 so-called "super sites" that contain more than 20,000 tonnes of waste.The largest is a 281,000-tonne heap of contaminated soil in Northwich, Cheshire, which is one of 11 such sites revealed by a BBC investigation in January.The EA said there are about 700 illegal waste sites in…
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