Brief

摘要

Two companies have been fined a total of £26000 following a major Environment Agency investigation into the illegal handling, storage and export of hazardous waste. Chemson Ltd of Wallsend, near Newcastle, and the Empress Green Trading Company Ltd, of Oldham, were sentenced, along with Joanna Potts, an officer of Empress Green. The illegal activities were uncovered by EA officials after it followed up complaints about dead fish in a pond, later traced back to a site where hazardous waste was being stored without the proper environmental permits.