Millisle businessman fined £3,000 for waste offences

Mr George Morrow, trading as North Down Recovery of Main Street, Millisle, was today fined a total of £3,000 and £22 costs at Newtownards Magistrates' Court for a breach of waste management legislation.

Officers of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) investigated the above site, where Mr Morrow operates a garage, on 1 October 2008 where a quantity of controlled wastes in the form of 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.

Mr Morrow pleaded guilty to three charges and was fined £1,000 under each charge.

Notes to editors

1. NIEA brought the charges under The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997one count of Article 4(1) a, i.e. depositing and knowingly permitting waste to be deposited in or on land without a waste management licence; andtwo counts of Article 4(1)b, i.e. relating to keeping controlled waste in or on land unless a waste management licence authorising the deposit is in force and the deposit in accordance with the licence.
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