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Clay company pays heavy price for toxic discharge

Imerys Minerals have been ordered to pay £100,000 in fines and costs for allowing a hazardous chemical to enter a Cornish river.

The offence occurred in July 2013 after staff at Roc....

Added on: 31/01/2017

MJ Curle Ltd ordered to pay £32,920 for environmental waste offences

On Thursday 26 January 2017, Stuart Curle, director of MJ Curle Ltd, Sunnymead Farm, Shifnal, Telford, pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates’ Court to operating a regulated facility that was ....

Added on: 31/01/2017

London waste company fined for breaching permit

The Environment Agency has prosecuted a company operating a waste transfer station in London for breaking rules set out in its environmental permit, which aims to safeguard the local environment an....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Essex waste company and director made to pay £20,000 for waste mountain

It prosecuted the company and its director for storing waste so high that it exceeded the site’s permit height restrictions by 6 metres.

Samantha Jones, Director of Connect Waste Ma....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Bidwell Metals Ltd will close Somerset scrapyard after noise complaints

A Somerset scrapyard that caused the ‘worst noise nuisance’ an Environment Agency expert has ever experienced is to close.

Bidwell Metals Ltd (BML) operates a long-established....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Man sentenced after waste fire destroys firm

A Middlesbrough businessman has been handed a suspended prison sentence after his poor environmental practices caused a waste fire which became a major incident for emergency crews.
The blaz....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Chesterfield waste firm has permit suspended

The Environment Agency has partially suspended the environmental permit of Lindrick Project Management Ltd, Chesterfield, after the company failed to comply with its permit conditions.

Th....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Teesside wood recycling firm fined

UK Wood Recycling Ltd, a Manchester-based firm which has a site on the Wilton International industrial estate near Redcar, was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court today, 24 November.
They were....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Plastics processing company fined for safety failings

A Liverpool plastic processing and reprocessing company has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries when his arm was caught in a machine.

Centriforce Products Ltd was prosecut....

Added on: 30/11/2016

Worker dies when temporary platform collapses

A worker died and two others were badly injured at a construction site in Putney, when a temporary platform collapsed. Southwark Crown Court heard how, on 29 October 2012, a carpenter and a steel-f....

Added on: 30/11/2016