{"id":756,"date":"2026-01-07T08:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:02:56","slug":"20000-tonne-kidlington-waste-dump-clearance-to-begin-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/20000-tonne-kidlington-waste-dump-clearance-to-begin-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"20,000 tonne Kidlington waste dump clearance to \u2018begin in February\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Environment Agency will begin work to clear a 20,000-tonne illegal waste site next to the River Cherwell in February, the UK Government has said.<\/h4>\n

Last year, around 20,000 tonnes of waste was\u00a0illegally dumped over many months<\/a> on a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington, Oxfordshire. The waste is approximately 150 metres long and six metres high.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Parliament, Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh said the government hopes clearance will begin in February and will take \u2018approximately six to nine months\u2019.<\/p>\n

Creagh was responding to the area\u2019s MP, Calum Miller, who said that, despite the Environment Agency saying preparatory work to clear the site was underway<\/a>, nothing appeared to have been done.<\/p>\n

In December, the Environment Agency committed to clearing the site \u2018as soon as possible\u2019 and promised to set out details on a timeframe shortly.<\/p>\n

Creagh told Miller that preparatory work will begin shortly and to expect further details on a timeframe for clearing the site from the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Parliament, Creagh said: \u201cThe clear-up of illegal waste sites by the Environment Agency should only be a last resort, undertaken in exceptional circumstances to protect the public and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn accordance with the polluter pays principle, criminals who disregard the law, undercut legitimate businesses and blight communities and the environment must pay the penalty, not us as taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not wish to create a perverse incentive for some people to dump, or facilitate the dumping of, waste. It should be for polluters, not taxpayers, to pay the costs of clean-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Director of Policy, Communications and External Affairs at the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), Dan Cooke, told the\u00a0BBC that criminals could have made well over \u00a3500,000<\/a> from dumping the waste.<\/p>\n

A 39-year-old man was arrested last year in connection with the illegal waste site<\/a> near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n

The investigation is led by the Environment Agency\u2019s National Environmental Crime Unit in coordination with Oxfordshire County Council, Thames Valley Police, and National Highways.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 The Environment Agency will begin work to clear a 20,000-tonne illegal waste site next to the River Cherwell in February, the UK Government has said. Last year, around 20,000 tonnes of waste was\u00a0illegally dumped over many months on a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington, Oxfordshire. The waste is approximately…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}