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Environmental protection laws are amended
These Regulations widen the scope of the power of direction in section 57 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 from the holders of waste management licences to the holders of permits under the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 which authorise the disposal or recovery of waste. This would encompass, amongst other activities, landfills, waste incinerators and some cement ki...
News | 22 Nov 2005
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Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 came into force on 1 November 1990 and establishes in England, Scotland and Wales businesses’ legal responsibilities for the duty of care for waste, contaminated land and statutory nuisance. The Regulations: set out businesses’ ‘duty of care’ responsibilities for producing, coll...
Regulation | 1 Nov 1990
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Waste management
...ication of the waste hierarchy has recently been codified in the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011. Workplace Law advises clients on all aspects of compliance with waste law. We also help organisations fulfil their legal responsibility to manage waste. The Duty of Care (as set out in the Environmental Protection Act 1990) requires the holder of the waste, which can be the waste producer, carrier or disposer, to take all reasonable steps to ensure there is no unauthorised deposit, treatment, keeping or disposal. This includes ensuring it does not escape from your control, is only transferred to an authorised person,...
Support | 10 Feb 2012
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The Human Rights Act: Enforcement powers
...the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic wellbeing of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedom of others.Section 17 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Section 20 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 give Environment Agency, Health and Safety Executive and Local Authority inspectors' powers of search and seizure over and above those used by the police. These include the power (without a warrant) to:- enter premises;- undertake examin...
News | 30 Jun 2000
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Waste tyres posed fire risk
...h companies and their directors continued depositing and storing waste tyres far in excess of what was permitted ignoring advice and other action taken by the Agency.” McCarthy Waste Management Ltd was ordered to pay £12,000 costs after pleading guilty to two offences under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (depositing and storing waste tyres). Company Director, Kevin McCarthy, was fined £9,000 and ordered to pay £12,000 costs after pleading guilty to two offences. A second director, Steven Grant, was fined £8,000 with £13,500 costs after admitting one offence. ...
News | 17 Jun 2011
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Environment Agency reports pilot scheme progress
...in the North East demonstrates that the Agency cannot rest on its laurels in addressing the issue and preventing rogue operators from trading. “Proactivity is key if all businesses are going to be encouraged to store and dispose of waste in the correct manner, leading to greater awareness of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and other key regulations.”
News | 27 Apr 2011
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Farmer fined for burying asbestos to save money
A farmer has been fined for burying 2.3 tonnes of asbestos on his land. He was fined £6,500 and ordered to pay £3,500 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge. The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under Section 33(1)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. For the Environment Agency, solicitor Michael Robinson told the Court that Anthony Bealby had previously owned Grange Farm and adjoining fields. In November 2009 complaints were received that asbestos roofing had been removed from a barn at Grange Farm and buried. This land did not have an ...
Case | 22 Feb 2011
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Council fined after selling waste electrical goods to unauthorised handlers
...e Plymouth magistrates on 10 June, Plymouth City Council was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £3,742 costs after pleading guilty to four offences including, as a person who keeps and disposes of controlled waste, failure to ensure transfer notes were completed and signed in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The offences were committed between 1 April 2008 and 2 June 2009. A spokesperson for the Council said: "We fully accept that our administrative procedures should have been more rigorous. We have now carried out a thorough review of procedures to make sure that all our files on the waste and r...
Case | 14 Jun 2010
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Businessman fined for illegal burning of waste
...000 and ordered to pay £1,398 costs after being found guilty in his absence by Plymouth magistrates. He was convicted of illegally disposing of controlled waste, namely wood and plastic, by burning on land where there was no environmental permit in force – an offence under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Said Sarah Taylor for the Environment Agency:“This prosecution serves as a warning to businesses. The burning of plastic contaminated waste is unacceptable and can have serious consequences. Potentially harmful chemicals including dioxins can be released into the atmosphere from this type...
Case | 17 May 2010
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...rcial areas. The issue of noise has therefore become of increasing importance to many businesses operating in the locality of domestic properties. This is of particular importance when noise constitutes a statutory nuisance and a Local Authority decides to take enforcement action. Section 79 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 outlines those matters that constitute a statutory nuisance. These include: · noiseemittedfrom premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance; and · noisethatisprejudicialto health or a nuisance and is emitted from or caused by a vehicle, machinery or equipment in a street (or, in Scotl...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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Biffa fined for asbestos mishandling
...to two charges of breaching its waste management licence, specifically involved with the handling of asbestos. The company was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £15,400 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under Section 33(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. For the Environment Agency, Counsel Barry Berlin, told the court that Biffa holds a Waste Management Licence for the Elvaston Quarry site. As the site operator, Biffa was responsible for controlling the deposit and safe handling of the waste it received. Around May 2007, Biffa was accepting b...
Case | 15 Oct 2009
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Illegal waste activity leads to major fire
... know their legal responsibilities when it comes to waste, after scrapyard owner, Arthur J Webster (Jnr), was this week found guilty at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court of one charge relating to the illegal storage and treatment of waste. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Mr Webster was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,963. For the Environment Agency, Sheila Lodhi told the court that on 28 November 2007 the Environment Agency received notification by Nottingham Fire & Rescue service of a tyre fire at the Ponderosa scrap yard on Moor Road, Bestwood Vil...
Case | 25 Feb 2009
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Two companies fined following illegal deposit of waste
Two companies have been charged with breaching the Environmental Protection Act 1990 after being found guilty of illegally depositing contaminated soil.Frankis Solutions Ltd of Chelmsford was fined £4,000 with £1,000 costs after failing to make sure that the soil was disposed of properly and failing to describe the waste accurately to avoid anyone else breaking the law. Rory J Ho...
Case | 15 Sep 2008
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Sanitary bins
Yes, they should, even if only one bin. By law, sanitary waste is a controlled waste under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and therefore this act places a legal "Duty of Care" on the employers to ensure that all sanitary waste produced on your premises is correctly managed right up to final disposal. Also Regulation 21 of the Approved Code of Practice, in the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, ad...
Comment | 19 Mar 2010
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Lincolnshire company fined £10,000 for allowing dumping
...e the allowed height in places, that lorry loads of waste were being deposited without supervision and that the waste products being deposited included glass, plastics and potatoes. Greylees Ltd was fined £5,000 for permitting the deposit of the waste, breaching sections 33(1)(a) and 33(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and another £5,000 for keeping the waste, which breached sections 33(1)(b) and 33(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Environment Agency Officer James Brackenbury said: “Exemptions are meant to provide a regulatory system setting out the guidelines for low risk waste recovery operatio...
Case | 11 Apr 2008
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Peterborough companies fined for asbestos offences
...he area. Astra UK (Contracts) Ltd was fined a total of £2,500 and ordered to pay £2,200 costs and GJ Bowmer (Waste Disposal) Ltd was given a conditional discharge for two years with costs of £5,400 at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on 21 November, after pleading guilty to offences under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 and Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000. They pleaded guilty at earlier hearings. Magistrates were told that when the asbestos waste arrived at Thornhaugh Landfill Site near Peterborough it was mixed with items of hazardous waste which were not permi...
Case | 23 Nov 2007
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Derbyshire company fined £15,000 for burning waste
On 8 November 2007, Derwent Fencing Limited of Hilton, Derbyshire, pleaded guilty at South Derbyshire Magistrates Court to three charges of keeping, treating and disposing waste without a licence. The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Derwent Fencing Limited was fined £15,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,872.57. For the Environment Agency, Claire Andrews told the court that on 4 February 2007 a complaint was received of burning waste from the Derwent Fencing Limited site at Sutton Lane, Hilton. An Environment Agency office...
Case | 12 Nov 2007
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Pub faces legal action over 'nuisance' smoke odour
...see of the Queens Head in Boreham, Chelmsford, has received a letter from Chelmsford Borough Council following a complaint about "nuisance caused by odour from cigarette smoke". The council told Castledine it would monitor his pub "to determine if odour nuisances are being caused", in breach of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. If the council decides a nuisance exists, it is threatening to serve Castledine with an abatement notice, forcing him to stop or reduce the problem. Chelmsford council has sent a logsheet to the Essex pub’s neighbour who has complained, asking them to make a note of when they are being disturbed...
News | 26 Oct 2007
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Skip hire firm fined £30,000 for breaching waste management licence
...e management licence and operating without a waste management licence over a period of a year. Director Amardeep Thandi pleaded guilty to one offence and Mibbo Thandi, company secretary, pleaded guilty to seven offences. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Thandi Skips Limited were fined £30,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,187. The company was also ordered to pay £4,877 compensation for lost income to the Environment Agency. The court was told that the business, which was operated from a licensed site in Ladywood, Birminghamm failed rep...
Case | 23 Oct 2007
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Garden centre fined
...fficers visited the Wyevale Garden Centre at Pyle, Bridgend, and discovered that waste consisting of plastic, fibreglasss, broken flowerpots and pallets had been stored there. When the waste was not removed to the satisfaction of the Environment Agency, a notice was served under section 59 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 instructing the company to remove the waste by a specific date. However, due to the wording of section 59, which has only recently been amended, the company maintained it was not the occupier of the land where the waste was dumped, so the notice did not apply. It is now appealing against the noti...
Case | 11 Jan 2007
