Why waste data is so rubbish Building on a talk from May’s Show and Tell event, October’s session takes a longer look at one of the UK’s most grimy industries, waste crime, which costs the English economy £1 billion each year.
After a summer of record temperatures, A&E admissions and time without rainfall, it is perhaps no surprise that the number of wildfires in England and Wales this year has already reached the total recorded for the whole of 2025.


