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Asbestos dumpers ought polluting Dartmoor quarry

24th June 2004, Page 9
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TWO HAULAGE FIRMS have RAGTransport of Cheriton Bishop been fined £12,400 with £2,384 and the other three to Exeter-based costs for illegally dumping asbestos GH Newbery & Son. in Dartmoor National Park quarry. The Exeter firm pleaded guilty to Cullompton magistrates heard three offences including depositing that the Environment Agency controlled waste on unlicensed became aware that waste was being land; it was fined £12,000 with fly-tipped at the site in Bridford last £1,730 costs. RAG Transport also

February. pleaded guilty to three offences A team of officers spotted four and was fined £400 with £654 costs. trucks tipping eight loads of waste The Environment Agency's including soil, tyres and bonded Adrian Evans says: "We estimate asbestos sheeting. The officers estithat between them they could mated that 98 tonnes was illegally have saved an estimated £5,000

dumped. by illegally tipping on just that One vehicle was traced back to single day."

TWO HAULAGE FIRMS have RAGTransport of Cheriton Bishop been fined £12,400 with £2,384 and the other three to Exeter-based costs for illegally dumping asbestos GH Newbery & Son. in Dartmoor National Park quarry. The Exeter firm pleaded guilty to Cullompton magistrates heard three offences including depositing that the Environment Agency controlled waste on unlicensed became aware that waste was being land; it was fined £12,000 with fly-tipped at the site in Bridford last £1,730 costs. RAG Transport also

February. pleaded guilty to three offences A team of officers spotted four and was fined £400 with £654 costs. trucks tipping eight loads of waste The Environment Agency's including soil, tyres and bonded Adrian Evans says: "We estimate asbestos sheeting. The officers estithat between them they could mated that 98 tonnes was illegally have saved an estimated £5,000

dumped. by illegally tipping on just that One vehicle was traced back to single day."


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