Companies fined for illegally dumping waste
Charges were brought by the Environment Agency against Wykeham Estates (Northern); Bolland Skip Services and Westmoreland Waste Recycling in relation to dumping that took place to build a haul road at Hurst Plantation in Auckley.
Investigators found that 1,350 tonnes of waste had been unlawfully disposed of. They also found a dirt track had been turned into a road made up of soil, plastic, tarmac and metal, as well as waste later found to contain asbestos.
At Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, District Judge Bennett said the case was a “reckless breach of the law.”