Company fined for repeated environmental pollution

Magistrates have fined a logistics company a total of £17,000 and have ordered it to pay full Environment Agency costs of £5,008 after waste water from a factory polluted a nearby river killing hundreds of fish.

Three times in three months waste from a vegetable factory, run by Salvesen Logistics Ltd in Lincolnshire, escaped into nearby drains polluting the water.

Salvesen managers said the problems had arisen when pumps failed at a collection pit, which collects waste water p... (201 more words)

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