“We must keep up the pressure”: Environment Secretary forms new Waste Crime Crackdown Group
What was announced
Ministers, police, Mayors and local authorities join forces to target organised waste crime
Key points, in the publisher's words
- The net is closing on the criminal gangs behind illegal dumping, as Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle today (4 November 2026) brings police, regulators and local leaders together to step up enforcement against waste crime.
- The new Waste Crime Crackdown Group will drive forward action by identifying the weaknesses in the waste system that criminals exploit and removing blockers for change. They share one aim: to shut down the organised waste gangs.
- Illegal waste sites are a stark example of what happens when enforcement fails and criminals are allowed to exploit weakness in the system, leaving communities to pay the price.
Who and where
People
- Dame Angela Eagle (MP for Wallasey (Labour)) · more news
UK bodies of power
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK government department) · more news
Constituencies of the MPs named: Wallasey.
Where this sits in the 10 levels of power
Topics, as GOV.UK files them: Waste and recycling.
Receipt
- Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/we-must-keep-up-the-pressure-environment-secretary-forms-new-waste-crime-crackdown-group
- Published 2026-11-04 00:01:07 UTC
- Read by this site 2026-11-04 00:45:05 UTC from GOV.UK
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