EPA Prosecutes Oxigen Environmental

The EPA successfully prosecuted Oxigen Environmental Limited on 9th December 2004 for breaches of its Waste Licence (Reg. No. 152-1) during the year 2003, at Dublin Metropolitan District Court on Thursday, 9th December 2004.

The company, who pleaded guilty to six charges, operate a waste transfer station at Robinhood Industrial estate, Robinhood Road, Ballymount, Dublin 22. The company was convicted for sending waste off site to facilities without the EPA’s consent, and for accepting more waste that the permitted amount.

The other convictions related to offences for failure to manage the site by not providing impermeable hardstanding throughout the facility, not carrying out necessary improvements to the Waste Transfer Building, improper waste management practices at the facility and failure to maintain a written record of all waste loads being accepted at the facility.

In giving his judgement, Judge Haughton acknowledged that while the company had agreed to plead guilty to the offences, these included serious offences, which were essentially for profit. He imposed fines of €1,000 each on the charges relating to the use of unapproved facilities and exceedance of the licensed annual tonnage for the facility, and fines of €500 on each of the remaining four charges. The Agency’s costs of €5,225 were also awarded.

The company was granted a waste licence on 18 December 2001 for the acceptance of non-hazardous waste i.e., household, commercial, industrial and construction and demolition waste.