A firm in Derbyshire has been fined by the Environment Agency for the illegal storage of waste fridges, following a surveillance operation.
Metal recycling firm Van Dalen UK Ltd was fined £20,000 for two charges relating to it depositing and keeping waste on land without a Waste Management Licence.
The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The company was fined £10,000 on each of the two charges and ordered to pay £2,857 costs.
For the Agency, Carolyn Pickering told the court that on April 2 2004 an Environment Agency officer visited land on Mansfield Road, Clowyne in Derbyshire. He did this in response to a complaint from the member of the public concerning old fridges being stored on the site. He found 12 fridges.
The officer returned to the site on April 21 2004 and found 50-100 fridges being stored there. Between April 29 2004 and May 21 2004, the Environment Agency mounted a video surveillance operation on the sites were being stored.
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