Of 1,500 pollution incidents investigated by the Environment Agency in the last 10 years just six cases were taken to court - and led to only minor punishment
Campaigners told i they have no faith in the Environment Agency to force landfill operators to take action against operators blighting their communityincidents relating to landfill sites in the past decade but less than 1 per cent have led to a prosecution,sites remain in operation across England and Wales despite pledges by previous Conservative governments to reduce the amount of residual
Last year, the EA secured convictions against Octagon Green Solutions Ltd, its director Kevin John Wanless, and Recyclogical Ltd relating to the Blaydon Quarry landfill site in Gateshead. A large landfill site that had been closed for seven years has been reopend in Fleetwood, Lancashire The company has now installed a plastic liner which it says should improve the issue in the long term.
Such is the scale of the operation, the smell has disturbed residents in both Bury and Heywood, two towns that are four miles apart.called for an “urgent” meeting with environment officials after he visited the site and was “taken aback” by the stench.Angela Brown, a Labour councillor in Heywood, said the number of complaints she received in January about the issue was “insane”.The Pilsworth landfill now rises above the nearby M66 motorway and has become an unwanted local landmark.
A spokesperson for Valencia said: “Our Pilsworth landfill site plays an important role supporting regional waste disposal services, the site holds an environmental permit, issued and regulated by the Environment Agency to ensure the site does not cause harm to human health or the environment. The council served the operator with an abatement notice in 2021 requiring it to control odours and has now begun the process of gathering its own evidence and instructing a King’s Counsel barrister to take the matter further.
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