There are more than 1,000 illegal waste sites in Britain, causing huge pollution and ruining people's lives. Are the authorities doing enough about the problem?
It was, Jan Bowdler says, one of the most miserable and upsetting experiences she has ever lived through. Only last year, when the man who had been operating an illegal waste site at the bottom of her garden finally pleaded guilty and was ordered to repay more than £800,000 of criminal profits, could she be sure it was over.
"It was a living nightmare," Bowdler says from her home in Colnbrook, near Slough. "Sometimes they'd start at 5.45am, on a Sunday. Massive arc lights shining into the windows, a crane towering over the house. Huge steel shipping containers being dropped onto concrete, and dragged from one part of the yard to another."
See full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/11/waste-crime-britains-war-illegal-dumping?intcmp=122
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