On a crisp sunny morning Environment Agency (EA) officers are braving the winter chill outside the Blackwall tunnel as they take their fight against waste crime on to London's roads. It is 13 January on one of the capital's main arteries, and police on motorbikes are flagging down vehicles - from huge eight wheelers to smaller tipper trucks and rusty-looking caged lorries. They escort them to a nearby layby, where EA officers check drivers' paperwork. Operation Salamander is part of the agency's efforts to ramp up its fight against waste crime in a series of stop-and-checks on waste vehicles on major thoroughfares throughout London.
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