South Armagh company fined for waste offences

South Armagh waste company Transco Waste Limited, and its former director Mr Vivian Devlin, have been fined a total of £6,000 plus £72 court costs at Newry Magistrates Court for unauthorised waste activities.

During a site inspection in November 2011 at the company's waste transfer facility at 124 Concession Road, Cullaville, officials from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) discovered that both plasterboard and hazardous waste in the form of fuel laundering waste were being stored on-site.

Both the company and its sole director at the time were each fined £1,000 for the following offences under the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order SI 1997/2778:

• depositing controlled waste and knowingly causing or permitting controlled waste to be deposited in or on any land without a waste management licence;
• treating, keeping or disposing of controlled waste, or knowingly causing controlled waste to be treated, kept or disposed of without a waste management licence;
• knowingly permitting controlled waste to be kept in a manner likely to cause pollution to the environment or harm to human health.