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Skip firm fined for leaving waste at farm
LEICESTER-BASED MJ City Skip Hire has been ined £20,000 after waste contaminated with glass, polystyrene, wood, metal, plastic and other items was discovered at a farm.
In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency (EA), Leicester Magistrates’ Court was told that on 1 September 2011, oficers from the organisation visited Scraptoft Farm, after receiving a report from Market Harborough District Council that illegal waste operations had been taking place there.
On entering the site oficers immediately saw a large pile of construction and demolition waste next to an old barn.
After speaking to the site manager it was established that Kuldip Singh Kainth, who owned the farm, wanted to form a roadway and that waste had been trans ported into the farm by MJ City Skip Hire.
There was no permit or exemption in place for the activities and the total amount of waste estimated to have been deposited at the farm was 2,000 tonnes.
In mitigation, a representative of MJ City Skip Hire told the court that all the contaminated waste had since been removed to the satisfaction of the agency and the company has now put measures in place to ensure the incident will not be repeated.
MJ City Skip Hire was ordered to pay £2,803.65 in costs, as well as being ined.
Kainth was ined £4,000 and ordered to pay £1,869.10 in costs.
MJ City Skip Hire and Kainth had each pleaded guilty to breaches of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulation 2010.
Permit needed
Storing or disposing of waste on land which does not have an environmental permit or exemption in place is illegal and can cause harm to the environment.