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Company director given Community Order for depositing waste
... ordered to pay a contribution of £3,000 towards the costs of the case. The Environment Agency brought the charges under Sections 33 and 157 of the Environment Protection Act 1990 and Sections 1 and 7 of the Control of Pollution Amendment Act 1989. Goodwin’s company, Corbuild Limited (now in liquidation), had a waste management licence for a small area of land, but during the early months of 2006 a number of deposits were made on areas not covered by the licence. After the Environment Agency found roofing waste and black bin bags on the site, Goodwin declined to be interviewed and then sugg...
Case | 17 Jul 2007
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New waste regulations come into force
...waste being sent to landfill. These are part of the Government’s drive to encourage recycling and reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites. The new rules have already come into force in Scotland, and from 30 October 2007 will affect businesses in England and Wales. The main changes are:liquid wastes will be banned from landfill; and waste must be treated before it can be landfilled. Landfills will no longer be able to accept untreated waste. Businesses should review their waste management procedures and speak to their waste management contractors about the new requirements.The legal de...
News | 26 Oct 2007
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Environment Agency Targets Waste Crime
... cause pollution of the environment or harm to human health. Specifically the Agency will normally take enforcement action where: Hazardous waste is disposed of at unlicensed sites Hazardous waste is mis-described as non-hazardous waste in an attempt to reclassify it as non-hazardous Hazardous liquid waste is accepted for disposal at landfill. Businesses are being urged by the Agency to follow a five-point plan to minimise the risk of illegal waste management and to reduce the impact of the new rules on their activities: 1. Check whether your waste is hazardous using Environment Agency gu...
News | 30 Jun 2004
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£24,000 Fine for Poisonous Pollution
...se of the gross failure. It was also suggested that the pipe had become damaged by outside contractors. Further to a routine visit back to the site on 9 April 2002, information received led to an Agency Officer to find out that waste company tankers had been disposing of a considerable amount of liquid waste into the Bunn’s Bank effluent treatment plant on or around 17 March 2002. Interviews were held at the Environment Agency office with both the waste company and Banham Poultry Ltd. During the interviews it was apparent that Banham Poultry Ltd did not have a waste management licence to tre...
Case | 11 Dec 2002
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Company and director fined for polluting local watercourse with detergent
...s. When questioned by the Environment Agency, the managing director of DS Holdings Ltd, Neil Stewart, admitted that a leak had occurred from one of the drums. He also said there had been a much larger spill from a road tanker being used to transport hazardous wastes, including cleaning products and liquid soaps, from a site in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, to another site for treatment and disposal. The tanker was temporarily parked at the Slough site when the hazardous liquid accidentally leaked from a blocked valve. The tanker driver tried to dislodge the blockage, but the valve opened and 4,500 litre...
Case | 22 Jul 2010
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Business fined for storing controlled waste without a licence
...can cause pollution to the environment if they are not dealt with properly. The Environment Agency issues waste management licences which regulate the handling and storing of this type of waste. Licensed sites are required to have impermeable pavements, sealed drainage systems and storage for waste liquids. Operators who do not hold a valid waste management licence risk fines of up to £50,000 and up to six months in prison, alongside a criminal conviction.Mr Lee has since cleared up the site.
Case | 20 Feb 2009
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Slaughter company caught polluting river fined £22,000
...atercourse had turned black about a week previously. Samples showed that discharges from Goodmans had a significant impact on water quality with raised ammonia levels. During a follow up visit by EA officers on 26 June 2006, the area at the back of the building was waterlogged with pools of foamy liquid leading towards the stream. The stream itself was black in colour buzzing with flies and a strong odour present. Soil samples also showed there was blood and animal hair present. On 9 August 2006, EA officers interviewed Thomas Goodman of Goodman Slaughters where he explained that the waste wate...
Case | 5 Oct 2007
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Multiple Pollution Offences Cost Fertiliser Company £34,000
On Monday 20 October 2003, Landowner Liquid Fertiliser Limited of Farley, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates to eight charges relating to two separate incidences of it failing to meet conditions set out in its Integrated Pollution and Control (IPC) authorisation. The company’s Managing Director, Mr William B...
Case | 28 Oct 2003
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Shell fined £1m over Bacton gas blast
...nate that at the time of the explosion, daytime plant personnel were returning to offices to prepare for shift handovers, and the prosecutor said it’s likely that this was the only reason no one was killed. Investigators traced the cause of the explosion to a leak of highly flammable hydrocarbon liquid into a part of the plant responsible for treating waste water before discharging it into the sea. The leak was caused by the failure of a corroded metal separator vessel, which allowed water contaminated with the highly flammable condensate to enter a concrete storage tank where it was heated by an...
Case | 21 Jun 2011
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The Diversity Dilemma
...ty to Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. It was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay costs of £19,223.65. 23819 Abattoir fined for waste breaches An abattoir owned by Chitty Food Group Ltd has been fined nearly £28,000 for ten counts of breaching trade effluent limits. Any liquid waste that will be discharged to sewer, surface or ground water, or onto land, is known as trade effluent unless it is domestic sewage or clean, uncontaminated surface water. Levels of ammoniacal nitrogen, a compound found in urine, were found to be up to nine times higher than they should have bee...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Peterborough companies fined for asbestos offences
...he landfill site that a Thornhaugh operative saw illegal waste in the load. Mixed in with the asbestos was a butane gas bottle, paint tins, petrol cans, five fireworks up to six inches wide and some smaller rockets, aerosol cans containing car paint sprays, a large quantity of wood, a car battery, liquid soap, a container with residual battery acid and other waste such as a car stereo.The items had to be removed and sent to quarantine at a neighbouring hazardous landfill site . Thornhaugh Landfill Site is permitted to dispose of non-hazardous waste and certain non-reactive hazardous waste (such as...
Case | 23 Nov 2007
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Open for Business
...e original fine was "manifestly excessive". Thames Water has pledged £500,000 towards restoring the river's ecosystem. 27346 Recycling industry warned about fire safety after firm fined £40,000 A hazardous waste recycling company in York has been fined £40,000 for failing to safeguard flammable liquid that was used in an arson attack on the business. BCB Environmental Management Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 6 and 7 of the Dangerous Substances 8 and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR) after illegally processing drums of volatile chemicals close to unprotected electr...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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Safety failures alleged at nuclear plant
...eay from 1960 to 1989, has spoken publicly for the first time about his years there despite facing possible prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. In a dossier passed to the Sunday Times, Lyall claims that high-level radioactive waste was washed down drains intended for low-level waste. This liquid went into effluent pits which were then flushed into the open sea, sometimes on an incoming tide. Radioactive materials were handled without appropriate protection. Two workers who were contaminated later died of cancer in their forties. Lyall said he was a member of a survey team that found a hi...
News | 7 Mar 2005
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Case updates: December 2000
...onmentally responsible manner. R -v- Halfords Car Part Retailers Lancashire Waste Services in CourtLancashire Waste Services was recently fined £14,000 for polluting the River Brun with landfill leachate. In December 1999, the Environment Agency was tipped off by a member of the public to a brown liquid flowing into the River Brun from a manhole cover on Lancashire Waste's Rowley landfill site. The Environment Agency commenced investigations, which revealed that a valve on a leachate collection chamber had been closed off, allowing the liquid to escape. Sampling of chemicals discharging into the r...
News | 30 Dec 2000
