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Prison sentence & fines for poor pollution prevention measures<br />
Case 1:<br />
A man in Kidderminster has been given a<br />
suspended prison sentence, for illegally storing<br />
3,000 litres of waste oil and falsifying hazardous<br />
waste documentation. Pollution prevention<br />
measures (drip trays, bunding, spill kits etc.)<br />
and oil storage regulations (labelling) were not<br />
followed.<br />
Case 2:<br />
A rendering plant has been fined £15,300 after<br />
its effluent lagoon discharged into a watercourse,<br />
causing ammonia pollution and potential harm to<br />
fish. The company’s site drainage and sampling<br />
was inadequate, and so they were fined for failing<br />
to take reasonable care to prevent pollution.<br />
Please ensure that you are implementing pollution prevention and meeting storage regulations<br />
on all of our sites and depots, or we risk the chance of prosecution.
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