In the UK trime Minister Andy Burnham’s government is treating large-scale illegal waste dumping increasingly as organized crime, including bringing in the National Crime Agency. The issue combines visible neighborhood decline, taxpayer cleanup costs, environmental damage, and criminal gangs. It has particular engagement potential because people can connect a national policy to problems they see locally. The tougher approach also raises questions over penalties and whether offenders should personally pay full cleanup costs. It is an unusually good environmental story for polling because it is not politically abstract.