Farmers and landowners across East Anglia are being asked to stay vigilant this winter as waste criminals continue to dump lorry loads of illegal waste on rural land under cover of darkness.

The Environment Agency is working in partnership with local police, the National Farmers Union (NFU), the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and local authorities to tackle these criminals. Offenders are saving thousands of pounds in disposal costs whilst leaving landowners facing bills of £6,000 or more to clear each load.

Criminals are forcing their way past locked gates to dump shredded waste on carefully selected sites including farmers’ tracks and fields, lanes, industrial land, parkland and laybys.

Peter Lennard, an environment officer for the Environment Agency, said:

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