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Recycling company fined €25k over transfer of waste to unlicensed sites

Summary

In a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court hearing, Greyhound Recycling and Recovery (GRR) pleaded guilty to breaches of the Environmental Protection Act and the Waste Management Act for transferring waste to five unlicensed sites in Kildare, Dublin and Laois between April and June 2012, and for failing to keep adequate records between March and August 2012. The company admitted providing false information and breaching its license. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) noted that GRR had a waste licence from May 2007 for storing and transferring waste from a Clondalkin site, where most output was Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) bales. The licence allowed shipping SRF to suppliers on the continent and storing bales at Dublin Port, but the company diverted them to unlicensed sites when the port storage was full. EPA investigators found 5,000 bales at a Kildare site, 2,000 at Maynooth, 120 at a Tipperary site, 1,000 at Hollystown, and evidence of storage at Ballybrit.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Recycling company fined €25k over transfer of waste to unlicensed sites. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision

When:

• June 2012 Hearing Or Sentence
• August 2012 Hearing Or Sentence
• May 2007 Hearing Or Sentence
• 2017-05-31 Publication

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Stage Hearing Or Decision

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