Lisburn scrap metal merchant fined £5,000 for waste offences

A Co Antrim man was fined £5,000 plus £22 court costs today for breaches of waste management legislation.

Mr Jackie Tate (48) of Moira Road, Lisburn, was fined at Lisburn Magistrates’ court.

On 23 November 2007, Northern Ireland Environment Agency (formerly Environment and Heritage Service) officers investigated a site at 262a Moira Road, Lisburn owned by Mr Tate, where a substantial quantity of controlled wastes in the form of various scrap metals, end of life vehicles and parts of end of life vehicles was deposited. The site did not have a waste management licence or a licence to operate as an authorised treatment facility for end of life vehicles.

Notes to Editors:

1. Mr. Tate pleaded guilty on two waste charges under the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and was fined £2,500 under Article 4(1)a and £2,500 under Article 4(1)b of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.
2. End of Life Vehicles are defined as vehicles that are categorised as waste. Waste is defined as anything that you discard, intend to discard or are required to discard.
3. The charges related to: the treating, keeping and disposal of controlled waste, or knowingly causing or knowingly permitting controlled waste to be treated, kept or disposed of in or on any land except under and in accordance with a waste management licence.
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