Mastodawn

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Say hello to the UK’s most suc...

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸1d ago

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

My local example has now resulted in a District Council Planning Enforcement notice and a demand to restore the land within 2 months. I'm not holding my breath that anything actually happens.

Industrial quantities of domestic waste buried and covered in a trench of a field that had planning permission for landscaping, completed by the previous owner.

https://www.broxbourne.gov.uk/downloads/file/4936/enf-26-0012

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Chuckles 1d ago

@jbond looks like all they care about is the precious pipeline

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@celeduc Indeed. Cadent were the only agency to pay real attention to what was going on. The council had to come up with demands that dealt with Cadent's concerns.

There's an added twist, 6 months before the waste burial started, they had been dumping all kinds of waste in one corner of the field, right above the pipeline. It caught fire and resulted in a 4 fire engine incident in the middle of the night that I saw from 8 miles away.