Contractor fined for unauthorised 'recovery' of inert waste

A prominent Dublin waste contractor has been fined €10,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for unauthorised "recovery" of inert waste at an illegal dump in Co. Wicklow in the late 1990's.

Anthony Dean (aged 56), owner of Dean Waste trading as A1 Waste, of Woodhaven, Milltown, Dublin 14, had pleaded guilty to undertaking the recovery of lorry loads of waste at the landfill number four section of the 47-acre site of John O'Reilly's land at Whitestown, Baltinglass without having been so authorised by licence between January 1 and May 1, 1998.