Pitsea tip has been named as one of the most 50 dangerous sites in the country - by the Environment Agency.

The site makes the list of shame for potential risk to public health and to the environment. This is from over 300 landfill sites, 250 waste treatment sites and 400 waste transfer sites.

The risk is assessed through point scores - the higher the score the greater the danger. Pitsea scored 151 points, a third more than South Ockendon's landfill site, which scored 111. The worst site in the country, Pillhead Copse in South West England, scored 435.

Eve Richards, the Environment Agency's principal officer on waste for the region, said: "By publishing performance assessment scores for each waste site and linking the charges paid by operators to their performance scores, the pressure to improve will only increase."

Published Monday, June 16, 2003

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