Asbestos Claims
A NUNEATON firm has been fined £32,000, plus £2,174 costs, for failing to dispose of asbestos properly.
Crown Waste Management, based on the Pool Road Industrial Estate, pleaded guilty at Coventry Magistrates’ Court to three charges brought by the Environment Agency under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005.
Kiran Cassini, prosecuting, told the court that in September 2009 Crown Waste Management were contracted to remove asbestos lagging from Gamecock Barracks in Bramcote.
Two skips were delivered to the site by Crown Waste Management and later collected for disposal.
The skips were deposited on land at Pool Road, Nuneaton, where no environmental permit was in force.
Mr Cassini explained that on both occasions, when the skips were collected, the relevant consignment notes were not provided as required by the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005.
It was not until November 17, 2009 that a consignment note was provided stating that the asbestos had been taken to Sita Limited, in Packington Lane, near Coventry, that was authorised to accept asbestos when, in fact, the waste remained on land at Pool Road until the Environment Agency began to investigate matters.
Following intervention by the Environment Agency, the asbestos was finally disposed of correctly in July 2010.
In mitigation, the court was told that the incident arose as a result of a member of staff ‘forgetting’ that the waste had been deposited opposite the permitted facility.
The employee had since been dismissed, the court heard.
The company said the incident did not result in any pollution or harm to human health.
source: coventrytelegraph.net
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