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Waste Company fined £30,000
18 November 2009
A permitted waste operator continually stored waste at two unregistered sites despite being told by the Environment Agency that the company was breaking the law. There was still waste at the sites a year after the offences first came to light Grimsby Magistrates' Court heard this month. Donoghue Recycling Ltd was fined a total of £30,000 and ordered to pay full Environment Agency costs of £5,374 after being found guilty in absence of four offences at sites in Ladysmith Road, Grimsby and Pelham Road, Cleethorpes. The company had a permit for a waste transfer station at Wilton Road Industrial Estate at Humberston near Grimsby, which allowed storage, sorting and separation of waste. The offences related to material taken from the Wilton Road site and tipped at the other sites, which were not registered. Tonnes of waste soil containing plastic, wire and glass were tipped at Ladysmith Road and Pelham Road. More information is available here: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/112914.aspx | 
