Lewisham man fined for operating illegal waste site
The owner of a London skip hire business has been ordered to pay £6,000 after failing to comply with Environment Agency legislation. Mr Mark Smith, who runs the skip hire business from 35 Nightingale Grove, Lewisham, pleaded guilty on 27 January 2010 at Greenwich Magistrates Court for failing to hold an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England & Wales) Regulations of
2007. The court heard that the Environment Agency became aware of Mr Smith’s activities in November 2007 when he was warned to stop. In May and June 2009 the waste operation or waste transfer activities were continuing by the depositing, keeping and treating of controlled waste including waste wood, mattresses, metal and builders waste comprising of bricks and wood without an environmental permit.
Mr Smith was ordered to pay £4,000 in fines with prosecution costs of £2,000 and a victim surcharge of £15.
The 2007 regulations provide a single, streamlined, risk-based framework for permitting and compliance covering various activities. The main aim of environmental permitting is to protect human health and the environment against harmful effects caused by the collection, transport, treatment, storage and tipping of waste.
Environmental Crime Officer Mike Real said: “A message needs to be sent out to waste operators that they must be aware of their responsibilities to operate within the law. This type of waste must be disposed of correctly and have an environmental permit “Mr Smith ignored previous warnings from The Environment Agency and continued to operate an illegal waste site. We will not tolerate the inappropriate disposal of waste and will take suitable enforcement action against those operating outside of the law.” Waste Management Licences are now known as Environmental Permits since the coming into force of the Environmental Permitting (E & W) Regulations 2007 on 6 April 2008.
Love Food, Hate Waste!
One of a series of images on our refuse trucks to support our new waste minimisation campaign.
Mattress Scheme Bedding Down!
Cllr Paul Bentley tested our new mattress recycling service today, and Tweeted about his experience….
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Coming to a bin near you !
Our new stickers to help residents remember what can and can’t be put in their recycling bins have been produced. We hope this will help to reduce the contamination of recyclable waste and increase the amount we recycle. Arrangements are being made to distribute them to residents.
Mattress Recycling Begins!
Our fantastic new mattress recycling scheme has begun. This image was reported to our new LoveLewisham site this morning from our great new LoveLewisham iPhone app.
Our new Mattress recycling scheme could save nearly 2 standard-size swimming pools of landfill space each month!
SLP cover our iPhone App
It was nice to see this piece in last weeks’ South London Press covering the launch of our new Love Lewisham iPhone App. It contained some nice comments from people over at BrockleyCentral , who had posted an article on the app earlier in the week.
Kay-Time TV!
Our very own, Kay Foley talks to BBC reporter for Breakfast Time piece on abandoned dogs, with our friends at Battersea Dogs Home. Kay also featured in a studio interview this morning (I’ll post a link to that when I can find it). Kay is also quoted in this BBC article. Well done Kay
BrockleyCentral consider our Waste Strategy
Popular Lewisham Blog, BrockelyCentral, have very kindly published an article I have written, discussing our Waste Strategy (They are not known for holding-back with their comments, so I’ll keep my head down for a while!)
Refuse Service Struggles with More Snow
(Above. View from refuse cab Wednesday morning, posted onto our new LoveLewisham site from our new iPhone app)
Update, Thursday 14th: All crews out this morning and resuming collections, mainly concentrating on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s schedules. Pockets of inaccessible areas yesterday has affected scheduling but we are confident that all areas will receive a collection by the end of the week
Sydenham Trees KML Part 2
1) Open the KML File, view tree data, and click ‘Update this post’ to tell us about changes
2) Add some details, and a photo, if you want..
3) Report sent to LoveLewisham (this is my test version of the site)
4) Our tree officer gets the report and takes any action,,,
