Waste-handling firms face tougher background checks in crackdown on crime

31 January 2022 by gilstonwastemanagement

Waste management Firms that handle waste face more rigorous background checks under government plans to tackle fly-tipping, illegal waste exports and other environmentally damaging crimes. Illegal dumping by organised crime gangs costs the UK hundreds of millions of pounds each year while illegally exported waste tends to be sent to poorer countries that lack the […]

Appeal after abandoned trailers full of waste are found in Bromsgrove

28 July 2020 by gilstonwastemanagement

An investigation by the Environment Agency has begun into four abandoned trailers full of waste that have appeared around Bromsgrove in the space of a week. Officers are now appealing to members of the public for any information into the illegal dumping which all happened within five miles of each other in North Worcestershire. The […]