Waste director jailed
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• The director of a waste disposal operation has been jailed for 18 months after admitting charges involving the illegal storage of clinical waste, including human body parts.
In an incident related to one of the charges, Environment Agency staff discovered a Hertford warehouse containing 61,000 yellow bags of clinical waste, 3,000 bins containing sharp instruments such as needles, and 600 bins for body tissues and amputated limbs. John Moynihan, who at the time of these offences was serving as director of Hertfordshirebased Green Environmental industries, pleaded guilty to two charges of illegal storage of waste in 1995, Clearing up the 100 tonnes of waste took three weeks and cost more than £200,000.
St Albans Crown Court heard that the company did not have a licence to carry the waste, and hired trailers and tractive units to transport it.