AN OPERATOR WHO RAN an illegal waste site operation in Walsall has been handed a community order. In a case brought by the Environment Agency, Stephen Wayne Morgan, 52, was sentenced at Walsall Magistrates' Court to a two-year community order with a requirement to complete 250 hours of unpaid work, and ordered to pay £17,000 in prosecution costs, along with a £60 victim surcharge. Morgan had pleaded guilty to one offence of operating a waste storage and treatment facility without an environmental permit, at an earlier hearing. The offences were committed on Middlemore Lane, Aldridge, Walsall, where Morgan had operated under the trading name Aldridge Aggregates & Recycling. Between 6 April 2015 and 29 August 2015, Morgan allowed waste to be deposited, that was later shredded and crushed, before being sold as processed products. The site contained thousands of tonnes of waste including construction and demolition waste, wood waste and waste soils.
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