newsCharity donation after river contamination
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Costain Limited will donate £55,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after polluting the River Don during a major upgrade to the A19 in South Tyneside.
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newsJail term for illegal waste business owner
THE OWNER of a skip-hire company in north Kent has been convicted after the harmful way he handled waste on the banks of the river Thames.
newsMan receives suspended sentence for waste offences
AN EAST Yorkshire man received a suspended sentence and was ordered to pay £2,000 in compensation and costs, after illegally storing hazardous waste including flooring materials with the appearance of containing asbestos and running an illegal waste site in Aldbrough.
newsSerco fined £240k after man killed in crash
SERCO HAS been fined £240k after a man was killed when the lorry he was a passenger in crashed into litter picking vans blocking a lane of a dual carriageway in Norfolk.
newsDuo jailed for illegal Lincolnshire waste site
TWO men operating from a Skegness waste site have been jailed and a third sentenced after the Environment Agency found they were storing material illegally.
newsCompany and directors fined for illegal waste site
AN ESSEX waste company and its directors have been fined more than £20,000 after they stored tonnes of waste illegally at a site in Braintree.
articleIt’s in our hands
Tackling the significant environmental impact of PPE should be top of the agenda in industry, says Nik Rilatt.
newsFines for landfill companies that caused misery
TWO COMPANIES that caused misery for residents when litter and smells escaped from Blaydon Landfill in Gateshead have been sentenced.
news£2M fine after ‘reckless’ polluting
THAMES WATER has been fined £2 million after raw sewage polluted two Oxfordshire streams, killing almost 150 fish. The sewage also flooded a nearby garden.
newsScrap tyre duo prosecuted
TWO MEN running a recycling business in West Sussex let old tyres pile up at their yard, making them extremely flammable, a court has been told.
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