Major clean-up begins at notorious Kidlington waste site

Criminals dumped waste across 8,000 square metres of land near the A34 in Kidlington which was finally put to an end in October 2025 after officers shut down the site

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Major clean-up begins at notorious Kidlington waste site

A major clean-up operation is now underway in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, where trucks have begun removing mountains of illegally dumped waste, the Environment Agency has announced on Tuesday (April 14)...

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