{"id":87775,"date":"2018-01-08T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5d2fd52f7e0683065ec28565e0e300fd"},"modified":"2018-01-08T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:19:30","slug":"press-release-tivvy-skips-ltd-prosecuted-for-burning-waste-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87775","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Tivvy Skips Ltd prosecuted for burning waste in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Devon skip company has been ordered to pay \u00a35,500 in fines and costs for illegally burning waste. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Tivvy Skips Ltd runs a small waste transfer station near Tiverton and operates under an environmental permit. On 6 January 2017 the site was inspected and waste was seen being placed in a dumper truck, before being transferred into a skip and burned.<\/p>\n<p>The condition of the skip and debris found around it indicated the burning of waste was a \u2018routine occurrence\u2019. Alan Hutchings, the site manager at Tivvy Skips, blamed the illegal burning on a member of staff who he claimed was doing it without his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>A court heard the Environment Agency had previously warned the company about burning waste, but it had ignored the warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Tugwell, of the Environment Agency, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Burning waste is illegal and poses a serious risk to the environment and human health.The motive is nearly always financial as it reduces the amount of waste a company has to legally dispose of.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Courts take these offences seriously and where we have evidence, we won\u2019t hesitate to prosecute.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Appearing before Exeter magistrates, Tivvy Skips Ltd was fined \u00a33,000 and ordered to pay \u00a32,500 costs after being found guilty of breaching Regulation 38 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Since the offence, the company has introduced new management procedures and was found to be compliant during a recent inspection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burning waste was a &#8216;routine occurrence&#8217; despite warnings to stop from the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}