Crap Towns / Stoke-on-Trent / Pollution incidents
How often does Stoke-on-Trent get polluted?
16 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Stoke-on-Trent or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 43rd most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 2 were major, the worst kind. The most recent came in July 2026 and put tyres on the land. Smoke turned up in 4 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | Tyres | On the land | Significant |
| January 2026 | Household waste | On the land | Significant |
| December 2025 | Contaminated building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| September 2025 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| July 2025 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| July 2023 | Dye and ink | In the water | Significant |
| December 2022 | Commercial waste | On the land | Significant |
| August 2022 | Suspended solids | In the water | Significant |
| July 2021 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| October 2020 | An unidentified pollutant | In the air | Significant |
| November 2017 | Firefighting run-off and smoke | In the air | Significant |
| February 2017 | Firefighting run-off and smoke | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| September 2016 | Inert material or waste | On the land | Significant |
| September 2016 | Storm sewage | In the water | Major |
| August 2016 | An unidentified pollutant | On the land | Significant |
| February 2016 | Sewage material | In the water | Major |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 7.3 km | 76 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | – | 16 |
| Cheadle | 10.6 km | 2 |
| Biddulph | 13.7 km | 1 |
| Congleton | 20.2 km | 1 |
| Leek | 15.0 km | 1 |
| Stone | 10.3 km | 1 |