Aug
26
Director of a skip hire company, Michael Leah, along with a group of hauliers were charged with fines amounting to £100,000 for illegal tipping of almost nine thousand tonnes of waste at a farm in Cornwall.
The case was heard at the Truro Crown Court where the offenders were found guilty of dumping tonnes of demolition [...]
Aug
19
A prison sentence was given by Bradford Crown Court to a skip hire boss as he completely disregarded the laws pertaining to waste regulation. Not only was Neil Bland, aged 35, charged with deliberately breaking the law, but he was also found unresponsive to multiple warnings from the Environment Agency officers.
Bland, director of Town and [...]
Aug
14
A man that has spent the last few years earning almost £900,000 from an illegal waste dump has been hit with the largest ever proceeds of crime ruling.
Amrik Johal, a 53 year old man from Slough, had been dumping all kinds of waste on his own land, competing with the law-abiding operators who do everything [...]
Aug
5
Food manufacturer Nestle set some pretty ambitious targets back in 2009, to achieve zero total waste by 2015 for each of its 14 factories across the UK and Ireland.
Some thought this was a bit too optimistic, but they have just reached their third milestone by achieving zero waste to landfill at their York-based factory which [...]