Recycling
and skip-hire business Eastside 2000 (E2L) has been fined £18,000 for illegally
storing waste at site in Hereford. E2L was also ordered to pay costs of £7,732.
The firm pleaded guilty at Hereford magistrates’ court to storing demolition
waste at the site, which has no environmental permit.
The court
was told that, in June 2012, the Environment Agency ordered the waste to be
removed. At the time, the agency agreed to halt legal action until the outcome
of the planning application by E2L to build a waste washing facility at the
site. Permission was refused in March 2013 and the agency reinstated its
enforcement action. By the end of January 2014, the date for final compliance
with the notice, agency officers found the site still contained around 12,000
tonnes of waste. By August 2014, half the waste remained. Magistrates ordered
the site to be cleared within three months.
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