Two companies to be sentenced over waste breaches

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors are to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to waste management practices.

Yesterday AHP Manufacturing Bv trading as Wyeth Medica Ireland pleaded guilty through their financial director, Mr Tim Brosnan, to two counts that they disposed of or recovered waste materials, namely rinse water containing active ingredient medroxyprogestrone acetate (MPA), by means of Cara Environmental Technology Limited who was not an agreed hazardous waste contractor, on September 18, 2000 and November 28, 2001.

Wyeth Medica Ireland, of Newbridge, Co Kildare, further pleaded guilty to shipping waste out of the State without a certificate on April 26, 2001; and being the consignors of waste, in the course of transferring hazardous waste, engaged an agent who mixed hazardous waste with non hazardous waste on May 15, 2001.

Today Dublin-based Cara Environmental Technology Limited pleaded guilty, through their solicitor Mr Norman Fitzgerald, to four counts of shipping waste out of the state without a certificate on dates between September 18, 2000 and November 28, 2001.

Judge Patricia Ryan set a sentence date of July 28 next when full facts will be heard in relation to both companies.