US EditionMan arrested in connection with massive illegal waste dump in Kidlington, Oxfordshire
A 39-year-old man was arrested after a 150-metre mound of shredded waste was found near the River Cherwell, prompting a critical incident designation by the Environment Agency.
- A 39-year-old man from the Guildford area was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a huge pile of illegally dumped rubbish in a field near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
- The Environment Agency said cooperation between its officers and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit led to the arrest over the significant amounts of household and commercial waste dumped at the site.
- Anna Burns, the Environment Agency's area director for The Thames, said they have been working 'round the clock' to bring the perpetrators to justice and make them pay for the illegal dumping.
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Man Arrested by Team Investigating Huge Illegal Waste Tip in Kidlington
A man has been arrested as part of the investigation into illegal tipping of waste at a site near the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, the Environment Agency (EA) said. The dumping of a 150-metre long mountain of waste in a field alongside the A34 in Kidlington, raising risks of pollution into the nearby river, provoked widespread outrage and has been declared a “critical incident” by the EA. The EA said co-operation between officers from its majo…
Furniture, clothes, garbage bags and a microwave. Alexander Brannebo has filed over 100 police reports about dumping waste in the forest where he works. “Aluminum has ended up in the cows’ food and torn open their stomachs,” he says.
Man, 39, arrested over Oxfordshire fly-tipping waste mountain
The Environment Agency says a 39 year old man has been arrested as part of an investigation into the illegal dumping of waste at a site near the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire. The 150-metre long mountain of rubbish, in a field near the village of Kidlington, has provoked widespread outrage – while experts said it posed a serious threat to the environment and the nearby river.
The last Suez-Odoxa barometer is clear: the region is massively sorted, progressing in places, but still hits on the reduction of the volume of waste. A kind of ecological fatigue seems to settle down.
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