A round-up of recent successful prosecutions by the Environment Agency.

Waste offences

Suspended prison sentence for owners of a skip company in Bolton
Waste site owners prosecuted for breaching permit conditions

Wine company fined for waste packaging offences
A wine importation and distribution company has been ordered to pay more than £8,300 in fines and costs for failing to comply with waste packaging regulations.

Frozen dessert company fined for packaging offences
Tring company ordered to pay £26,615.00 after failing to register as a producer of packaging waste, and recover and recycle packaging waste.

Former waste company boss fined for failing to remove stockpile of waste
South Devon businessman Anthony Small has been ordered to pay £13,500 in fines and costs for failing to remove thousands of tonnes of waste from a site near Newton Abbot

Registered Waste Carrier fined for dumping skip waste
Local waste carrier Richard Goodwin has been fined a total of £2,000 for illegally dumping building waste on land at Monkey Oak Farm at Rolster Bridge,  Harbertonford, Totnes, Devon.

Company director sentenced to two year conditional discharge
On 27 August 2010, Edward O’Neill, of Blacksmiths Close, Nether Broughton, Melton Mowbray pleaded guilty to three charges relating to the illegal dumping, keeping and shredding of tyres.

Pollution offences

Fined for petrol station leak
ROC UK and Esso have been fined £7,000 and £3,500 respectively after a fuel leak from a Cambridge petrol station and ordered to pay £2,000 and £2,983 in costs.