Around 30 illegal waste sites will get unannounced visits from the Environment Agency today in a series of raids across Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.
It's the biggest sting of its kind ever carried out in a single day across the area.
Officers will follow up on specific reports of waste being burned illegally by commercial ventures. This kind of activity can blight communities, damage the environment and undercut legitimate businesses – impacts the Environment Agency is working hard to prevent.
EA teams will provide advice and guidance to legitimate businesses, and will make follow-up visits to sites where criminal and illegal activities are confirmed.
Mark Rumble, Enforcement team leader with the Environment Agency, said:
Waste criminals like those we're tracking down today flout the law and put our communities and our environment at risk. That's why we take waste crime extremely seriously and will do everything we can to bring those responsible to account.
These visits have been organised as a direct result of reports from local people, so we'd urge anyone with information about illegal activities to call our 24 hour incident hotline on
