{"id":733937,"date":"2026-08-10T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733937\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:52:10","slug":"blaze-breaks-out-at-trafford-suspected-illegal-waste-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733937\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaze breaks out at Trafford suspected illegal waste dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 43 year-old added: &#8220;The type of rubbish being dumped used to be agricultural waste, but it now involves builders waste alongside household waste, with things like mattresses and fridge freezers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The waste has just being growing and growing and getting out of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July, Ms Carr reported the waste to the Environment Agency (EA), which responded by saying they were aware of the site and has referred the case to the Area Enforcement Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an email to Ms Carr, the EA said: &#8220;We take illegal waste offences seriously and will use the powers available to us to investigate and, where appropriate, take enforcement action against those responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 43 year-old added: &#8220;The type of rubbish being dumped used to be agricultural waste, but it now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}