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Funding to fight flytipping needed to build recycling society
06.02.2008
Commenting on reports that DEFRA Ministers meet today to discuss budget crisis cuts of almost £1bn over three years, ESA Chief Executive Dirk Hazell said:
“These reports appear to confirm potential budget cuts noted by Defra’s Permanent Secretary last autumn.
“Over the last few years the Environment Agency has received money through the BREW programme to detect and prosecute environmental criminals like flytippers.
“Part of building the Recycling Society is resourcing the Environment Agency to secure convictions of environmental criminals like flytippers.
“The Environment Agency needs know if it can still afford to catch criminals from April this year and how much money DEFRA is prepared to ring-fence for this purpose in the future.”
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Notes to Editors
ESA is the UK’s sectoral trade association for waste and secondary resource management, an industry accounting for 0.7% GDP.
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Reference: ESA
Contact: Dr Steven Toole (020) 7591 3219 or s-toole@esauk.org
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