It’s in our hands
Tackling the significant environmental impact of PPE should be top of the agenda in industry, says Nik Rilatt.
Tackling the significant environmental impact of PPE should be top of the agenda in industry, says Nik Rilatt.
TWO COMPANIES that caused misery for residents when litter and smells escaped from Blaydon Landfill in Gateshead have been sentenced.
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.
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.
A FOOD waste recycling company has been fined £36k for the illegal spreading and storage of waste at three sites in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, in a sentencing case heard at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 16 November 2022.
CRAIG HUTTON of Skip It was convicted of operating the business without environmental permits.
A DARLINGTON man has been given a two-year community order to incorporate 20 rehabilitation activity days and 300 hours unpaid work after magistrates in Middlesbrough sentenced him for serious waste offences.
A FORMER company director has been fined for exporting banned household waste from Southampton.
A 40-year-old man who ignored Environment Agency warnings to stop illegally importing and burning waste at 2 Essex sites has been sent to prison for 14 months.
IMPROVED IDENTIFICATION and segregation of waste materials in warehouses and distribution centres is provided by the racksack clear system, now available from Beaverswood.
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