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11/09/2013

Landowner Fined For Breaching Waste Management Law

Mr Martin Mallon (57) of Milltown Road, Benburb, has been fined £1,000 at Dungannon Magistrates' Court for two breaches of waste management legislation.

Between September 2012 and January 2013, officers from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), investigated a site, owned by Mr Mallon, on the Milltown Road, where a substantial quantity of waste tyres were stored.

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Mr Mallon pleaded guilty to one charge of keeping controlled waste without holding the necessary waste management licence and one charge of failing to comply with a direction issued by the Department of the Environment (DOE).

He was also ordered to pay £75 court costs.

(CD/JP)

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