A Manchester waste plastic recycling firm has been fined after an employee’s hand was severed after being dragged into a granulator machine. CP Plastics Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an incident at Manchester New Rd, Middleton, Manchester on the 4 March 2015. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard the employee, who…
The Environment Agency (EA) has confirmed that premises in England producing more than 500kg a year of hazardous waste will no longer have to register. From 1 April, companies will indicate their business name in the consignment note code instead of a premises or exempt code. The changes do not affect Wales, where businesses will…
The director of a waste firm which went into liquidation in 2013 has been ordered to pay £33,000 in fines and costs after having pleaded guilty to breaching an environmental permit for the operation of a site in Bedfordshire. Simon Lupton, director of Wood Recycling Services, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court…
Stephen Weaver was sentenced for an offence relating to the storage, deposit and treatment of mixed waste at a site without an environmental permit. On the 28 January 2016, Shrewsbury Magistrates Court fined the defendant £1,320, ordered him to pay £10,652 in compensation to the Environment Agency, £4,805.63 in costs, along with a…
The owner of a Halifax skip hire firm has been jailed for two years for running an illegal waste site where treated waste wood was also being illegally burned. 65-year-old David Turner, of Farrar Mill Lane in Siddal, was sentenced last week (January 28) at Bradford Crown Court after admitting waste charges brought…
Oran Environmental Solutions hit with ‘record’ confiscation order Alloa-based Oran Environmental Solutions (OES) Ltd was yesterday ordered to return £345,558 in proceeds from its activities – the largest result under the Proceed of Crime Act – in addition to fines totalling £12,000 for waste-related offences. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) said the confiscation order…
Environment Agency and Gloucestershire police officers raided an “unpermitted” waste site in the Forest of Dean yesterday (February 23) as part of a crackdown on illegal waste activities. The unannounced visit was carried out by the Agency alongside Gloucester Constabulary as part of an investigation surrounding potential end-of-life vehicle dismantling activities at…
Viridor recently appointed AC Environmental to provide temporary COTC cover for one of their major landfill sites in Yorkshire. We were pleased to be able to offer short term, full time yet temporary cover to enable the site to continue to operate within the terms of it’s permit. As landfills continue to close the…
Are the Environment Agency requiring you to produce a Fire Prevention Plan? A Fire Prevention Plan (FPP) is a document required and enforced by the Environment Agency as a condition of an Environmental Permit. Larger, high risk sites, and sites applying for new or varied environmental permits are being tasked with producing plans…
AC Environmental have recently secured planning permission for a 33 acre site at Cadley Hill, Swadlincote, for an inert and wood waste recycling facility for Willshees Skip Hire. The site, a former coal stocking railhead, had been abandoned since the 1990s. Nature had moved in and the site is designated as a Local Wildlife Site,…