Surrey waste site ordered to pay £19,000
A waste company in Worcester Park in Surrey has been ordered to pay a total of £19,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty at Guildford Crown Court to operating an illegal waste transfer station.
The court heard how the site was being used to store 4,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste, alongside at least 17 skips of builders’ waste. The company had previously been warned about taking waste.
The waste company was in breach of the Regulation 12 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 as they were operating a waste facility without an environmental permit or exemption. This constitutes an offence under Regulation 38(1)(a).
The company was fined £10,000, ordered it to pay £9,000 towards the prosecution’s costs, and was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £120.
Former waste operator fined £700 for breaching environmental licence
Former waste operator, John Burnett has been fined a total of £700 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, after being found guilty of breaching the conditions of a Waste Management Licence .
SEPA officers conducting site inspections of Dalkeith Demolition’s site in Dalkeith while it was in operation between 2007 and 2011 rated the site as “poor” under the compliance assessment scheme. It was identified that waste was being stored on an area of the site which was not suitably surfaced. Following the identification of this issue, the officers granted a four moth period to remedy this. A subsequent inspection identified that this issue had not been resolved.
Further to the above issue, a site inspection on 24 August 2011 identified that the quantity of waste held exceeded the licensed limit of 1,000 tonnes and that was continued to be stored inappropriately.
Dalkeith Demolition went into voluntary liquidation in January 2012, when a large quantity of waste was left on the site.
John Burnett was sentenced for breaches of the Section 33(6) to the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Penalties of £11,000 imposed on a Newry man for fuel laundering waste offences
Francis McGuinness of Newry, Northern Ireland was today found guilty and fined £5,000 at Newry Magistrates' court for a breach of waste management legislation. He was also order to pay £6,000 in clean-up costs, £255 to NIEA for analysis costs and a £25 offender levy.
During a site visit on 4 December 2013, NIEA, PSNI and HMRC officers identified that a large quantity of hazardous controlled waste from fuel laundering had been deposited on the site. No licence was held concerning this waste.
Mr McGuinness was found guilty on one charge under Article 4(1)(b) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, which prohibits the treatment, keeping or disposal of waste on land or by means of any mobile plant unless in accordance with a waste management licence.
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