BBC Countryfile Magazine

JOHN CRAVEN

Crime comes in many forms and among the latest to get its own category is ‘waste crime’. This is the illegal dumping of solid or liquid waste on land or water that costs the UK economy at least £1 billion every year – the price of a new hospital.

We’ve all seen with disgust the dreadful,

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