The court has ordered a year’s suspended sentence to a skip hire firm owner. He has been found involved in illegal dumping of waste materials that has given him financial benefits of £1.5m.
Approximately 29,000 tonnes of waste, which mainly consisted of construction waste, was dumped by William O’Grady at two [...]

After being found guilty of illegal waste management, a skip hire boss has been given a warning of a possible jail sentence. The Environment Agency found illegal waste dumped on farmland by this skip hire firm and warned the boss two weeks earlier of the consequences.
William Matthew O’Grady, and his [...]

Owners of a Southport skip hire company, based on Crowland Street, have been fined for fly-tipping after a skip was found emptied on the road, leaving an “unsightly mess”. Those charged, however, are disputing the case against them.
The Preston Magistrates Court has ordered the company to pay a fine of [...]

Formerly a glass bottling facility at Lincoln, the site had been illegally used by the director of a skip hire company for waste management.
Kenneth Harrison, sole director of KJ Harrison Limited, pleaded guilty to two charges, that included operation of illegal waste site at the old Glass Recycling Facility in Great Northern Terrace. He had [...]

A skip hire firm based in North Cornwall has been ordered by the court to pay £5,940 in terms of fines and costs. The company has been charged with several waste offences after being reported by the Environment Agency.
The skip hire firm is operating a waste transfer station at Dinscott [...]

Investigation is being carried out over a skip hire firm after the incident of a large-scale bonfire took place causing ‘acrid smoke’ covering the area in Clayton-le-Moors. There have been many complaints from the residents regarding fires set at this site. The residents have also pointed out to the fact [...]

A man was given a 15 month jail sentence followed by a successful prosecution by UK’s Environment Agency (EA). He was charged for illegal dumping of more than a million waste tyres across the country.
Carl David Steele, from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was accused of dumping tyres at various environmentally sensitive areas, [...]

The staff of Compliance and Enforcement removed about 240 tonnes of illegal waste from Crown land near Oscar Creek, Canada, earlier this month. They received help from local volunteers and other businesses to carry out the waste removal efficiently.
The clean-up process was carried out using a special, long-reach backhoe. [...]

Tens of thousands of pounds fine has been levied on three different businesses as they were found guilty of various waste offences. The court was told that, due to this illegal managing of waste, another outbreak of the devastating foot-and-mouth disease could be caused.
The three firms that appeared before the Harrogate Magistrates’ Court on Friday [...]

The owner of a skip hire firm faced a court bill of £18,257 when he was found guilty of tipping illegal waste in the countryside of York. The main constituents of this waste included rubbish heaps from builders and households.
David John Mercer, 45, was able to save up to £91,000 [...]

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