EPA illegal dumping hotline to expand following flood of reports from public

THE Environmental Protection Agency is to expand the number of offences covered by its ‘Dump the Dumpers’ hotline after it was inundated by more than 1,000 calls since it was set up in June.

When the campaign was launched, it was only as a pilot scheme aimed at identifying large-scale dumping sites that may still be operational or any remaining abandoned illegal dumps.

However, given the number of calls the confidential hotline has received the scheme has been extended to February 29, 2008.