EPA fines six waste firms €86k

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned waste facilities to improve standards of operation and storage as it was revealed that six companies were fined a total of €86,000 for licensing breaches in 2013.

EPA fines six waste firms €86k

An EPA study showed Greyhound Recycling and Recovery in Dublin was fined €47,500, for odour nuisance and infrastructure failures. A fine of €12,000 was handed out to Oxigen Environmental, also in Dublin, for sending waste off-site to unauthorised lands without agreement.

AES Environmental Solutions in Offaly; Inagh Landfill in Clare; Gortadroma Landfill in Limerick and Behan’s Land Restoration in Kildare were each fined between €4,000 and €9,000 for offences such as odour nuisance, infrastructure failure and exceeding tonnage limits.

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