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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 ...
Case | 15 Sep 2008
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Companies warned about waste dumping after company fined £95,000
A Derbyshire scaffolding firm has been ordered to pay almost £95,000 following two charges related to the illegal deposit, treating and keeping of commercial waste on land without a waste management licence. ADIS Scaffolding Ltd was found guilty of these charges at Nottingham Crown Court and the case was proved in the company’s absence. The judge sentenced the company to ...
Case | 4 Aug 2010
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Company fined for storing asbestos waste
...age, trading under Apex PVC Roofline, appeared before Carlisle Magistrates Court where he was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £2,010 for five charges. The court was told that following a complaint from a member of the public that waste materials were being tipped on ground between two skips at the Station Yard Business Park, an Environment Officer found approximately 20 bags of what appeared to be asbestos tiles. Sample analysis revealed it to be asbestos. Mr Armatage said he had employed contractors to do the work and they must have tipped the waste. He admitted that there we...
Case | 19 Sep 2005
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Waste tyres posed fire risk
...o their site. “In this case both 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 co...
News | 17 Jun 2011
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The Social Network – 12 years of the Workplace Law Conference
workplacelaw The exclusive magazine for premium members of the Workplace Law Network The NeTWORK 12 years of the Workplace Law conference inside this issue MAR/APR 2011 Issue 59 Comment: New employment lawyer group addresses sexual orientation discrimination. Page 45 Legal update: Essential guide to proposed changes to Employment Tribunals. Page 16 Blow for freedom? The chall...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2011
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Record fine for waste offences
Two men were fined a total of £48,000 yesterday for waste offences - the highest to date for waste cases prosecuted by Environment Agency Wales. The court was told that the company had been taking large quantities of waste from its transfer station to a wooded area where it was dumped and burned. Agen...
News | 22 Dec 2000
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Cost of environmental offences for Carlsberg
Carlsberg UK Ltd has been fined a total of £25,000, with £2,001 costs, after staff disposed of hazardous substances illegally. The company admitted two offences in July and September 2003 of knowingly depositing corrosive acid and alkali at its premises in Whitley without a proper waste management licence. It also admitted two charges of failing to complete a consignment note detailing the movement of the special waste from its brewery in Leeds to...
Case | 11 Mar 2005
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The courts have handed out two big fines for illegally disposing of asbestos waste: G&K Roofing Contractors were fined £26,000 for storing and burning waste without a licence, and Jewson Ltd was fined £40,000 for illegally disposing of construction waste which contained asbestos. Storing and burning without a licence The...
Case | 20 May 2005
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It’s a WRAP
workplacelaw The exclusive magazine for premium members of the Workplace Law Network inside this issue NOV/DEC 2011 Issue 63 Changing times David Sharp, MD of Workplace Law, outlines exciting new plans. Page 22 Rules of RiddOR Latest guidance on reporting of injuries and ill health at work. Page 34 Comment: How green is our government? asks Alison Doig, Christian Aid. Page 9 ...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
workplacelaw The exclusive magazine for premium members of the Workplace Law Network Exploitation or opportunity? The net value of unpaid interns inside this issue MAY/JUN 2011 Issue 60 Wheels come off Kelvin Reynolds of the BPA on how the Government needs to clarify plans to ban wheel clamping. Page 22 Fire proof CPd surplus to requirements New Waste Management Regulations ...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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Tories Voice Opposition to Asbestos Regulations
...es resembling dry wood, mountain wood. · An amphibole is any of a group of common rock-forming silicate minerals. Amphiboles occur in most igneous rocks as minor and major constituents and form the major component in many metamorphic gneisses and schists. The amphiboles are inosilicates. They have two planes of well-developed prismatic cleavages that intersect at angles of about 124° and 56°. Many amphiboles develop elongate crystals, some becoming needle-like and fibrous. Several of these fibrous forms - Riebeckite, Cummingtonite, Anthophyllite, and Tremolite - are collectively called asbesto...
Comment | 26 Sep 2002
