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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Into the Wasteland: The true crime of the UK's waste mountain
Description: The British countryside is increasingly under siege from a scourge of illegal waste dumping – polluting both water and air – but one man is bravely taking the criminals on, staking out their sites with night vision goggles, drones and more. In a three-part, 'true eco-crime' podcast series for the Mongabay Newscast, investigative environmental journalists Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby trace this illegal 'waste trail' from their quiet English town to the nearby countryside, and as far away as Poland. Threatened, chased, but undeterred, waste investigator Martin Montague has also established a website, Clearwaste, to document incidents of...