{"id":679,"date":"2025-08-13T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:11:01","slug":"firm-fined-over-167000-for-dumping-waste-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/firm-fined-over-167000-for-dumping-waste-in-lincolnshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm fined over \u00a3167,000 for dumping waste in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"21fb89a4-459f-44e0-91a9-cb100d419ba2\" data-beyondwords-player=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-568235 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Waste crime\" width=\"860\" height=\"516\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Waste-crime-pic-2.jpg?resize=860%2C516&amp;ssl=1\"><\/h4>\n<h4>A transport company has been ordered to pay \u00a3167,587.13 for delivering controlled waste to an illegal site in Lincolnshire.<\/h4>\n<p>Fletcher Plant Limited was fined \u00a380,000, ordered to pay costs of \u00a350,000 and a confiscation order of \u00a337,587.13 at Nottingham Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheffield-based company had previously been found guilty in June 2024 of failing to comply with duty of care regulations for controlled waste between 1 October 2019 and 1 May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Environment Agency, codenamed Operation Lord, found that Fletcher Plant organised the transport of over 1400 tonnes of controlled waste over six months.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation\u2019s findings led to 12 people and 1 company, Fletcher Plant, being charged, of which 10 pleaded guilty. Following an 8-week trial, the remaining three defendants were found guilty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_568236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568236\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-568236 size-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"283\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Waste-crime-pic-1.jpg?resize=472%2C283&amp;ssl=1\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-568236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So far, 11 people have been sentenced to a total of 14 years\u2019 imprisonment for their involvement in the illegal operation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So far, 11 people have been sentenced to a total of 14 years\u2019 imprisonment for their involvement in the illegal operation.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told that intelligence gathered by the Environment Agency revealed lorry-loads of shredded waste were regularly being accepted onto the site, which is the size of a football pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The judge accepted that the company did not know the site was operating illegally, but its officers had a legal requirement to carry out a duty of care.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Stark, Enforcement Team Leader for the Environment Agency in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, commented: \u201cIf simple and continued due diligence checks had been made by Fletcher Plant, they would have flagged up that the site operators did not have the appropriate authorisations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue diligence checks are not something that should only occur prior to starting a contract; they should occur regularly during a contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/news\/firm-fined-over-167000-for-dumping-waste-in-lincolnshire\/\">Firm fined over \u00a3167,000 for dumping waste in Lincolnshire<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\">Circular Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A transport company has been ordered to pay \u00a3167,587.13 for delivering controlled waste to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}