How Andy Burnham plans to stop the UK’s illegal waste dumps

A new joined-up approach to tackling organised criminal gangs who illegally dump waste is being promised by Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Andy Burnham is to give mayors across the country new responsibilities for cracking down on illegal toxic waste dumps which are currently costing the taxpayer an estimated £1bn a year.

The prime minister has promised a crackdown on criminal gangs making money from dumping waste Hello and welcome to the UK politics live blog. The days of criminal gangs making easy money from dumping waste are “over”, the prime minister will say on a visit to a waste site in Yorkshire later today. These toxic dumps ha

The government says the sites in Kent, Surrey and West Yorkshire contain 22,000 tonnes of waste.

Greater Manchester will be one of the first areas with new region-led approaches to waste crime