Connect Waste Management UK has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,000 after ignoring permit conditions. Fines and costs amounting to more than £6,000 were also levied on the firm's director, Samantha Jones.
Snaresbrook Crown Court was told that Environment Agency officers found large amounts of unprocessed mixed waste overflowing out of a shed at the company’s site in Rainham, Essex.
The waste filled the building to the roof, about 10 m high, and extended out into the front yard by about 30m, exceeding permit conditions. The officers provided advice and guidance, and issued a warning for non-compliance, but in April and May 2014 there were reports of fires at the site.