A waste company has been ordered to pay £52,405.05 for failing to comply with a demand for information about the materials they accepted.
Tetron Welbeck Limited Liability Partnership pleaded guilty at Worcester Magistrates Court and was fined £44,800 and ordered to pay costs of £5,605.05. The Partnership was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £2,000.
Edward Seekings, a designated member of the Partnership, also pleaded guilty and was fined £1,708. Seekings, 41, was ordered to pay costs of £5,605.05 and a victim surcharge of £683, coming to a total of £7,996.05.
The court was told that the Partnership had an environmental permit since 2013 to operate a site at Welbeck Colliery near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. It was stated that the business changed hands around 2020.
We welcome this sentence which should act as a deterrent to others considering flouting the law.
The Partnership failed to comply with a formal information notice served on it after it failed to provide information requested by the Environment Agency.
The information was required to allow the Environment Agency to conduct an audit of the site to ensure waste within the correct category was being accepted.
Further attempts by the Environment Agency to obtain the relevant information failed.
A spokesperson for the Environment Agency said: “We welcome this sentence which should act as a deterrent to others considering flouting the law.
“As a regulator, the Environment Agency will not hesitate to pursue any person failing to provide information requested.
“The Environment Agency served a formal legal notice in this case requiring information to be provided. It is a criminal offence to fail to comply with a notice requiring information.”
