England’s illegal dumps contain 1.9 million tonnes of discarded waste.
This industrial-level fly-tipping has become big business, with criminals easily earning £2,500 for every single lorry-load.
Matilda Davies, senior data journalist for The Times and The Sunday Times, explains whether Andy Burnham’s new “waste crime crackdown group” can solve the problem.
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