newsProsecutions after teenager suffers serious burns
A METAL recycling firm and its director have been sentenced after a 15-year-old employee of the company suffered serious burns following an explosion and flash fire.
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newsFine after 18-year-old suffers ‘significant injury’
A RECYCLING company has been fined after an employee was injured while clearing a blockage in a waste metal chute.
newsEast Midlands builder put environment at risk
A NORTHAMPTONSHIRE building contractor and its managing director have been convicted of storing waste illegally.
newsWaste boss ordered to repay £800k
THE DIRECTOR of a Stockton-based company was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court after pleading guilty to waste offences.
newsThames Water fined £4M after sewage discharge
THAMES WATER Utilities Limited has been fined £4 million for discharging an estimated half a million litres of raw sewage into the Seacourt and Hinksey streams in Oxford on 24 and 25 July 2016. The water company has also been ordered to pay the prosecution costs in the sum of £90,713.
productHeavy duty racksack from Beaverswood
BEAVERSWOOD HAS enhanced its warehouse and distribution centre waste collection and segregation system with a new heavy duty racksack.
newsDirectors found guilty of waste crimes
THE ENVIRONMENT Agency has successfully brought those responsible to account for abandoning nearly 2,000 tonnes of waste at Shaw Road, Dudley in 2016.
newsNorfolk man guilty of illegal waste operation
A DEREHAM garage proprietor admits to storing waste illegally, despite repeated warnings from the Environment Agency.
newsFarmers’ second conviction for criminal waste site
A DISTRICT judge has branded a landowner “pig-headed” for ignoring repeated warnings he shouldn’t burn waste illegally.
newsFines after catalogue of safety breaches
THE CLIENTS and principal contractor of a construction project have been sentenced following numerous serious health and safety failings.
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