A haulier based in Crumlin, Co Antrim, has been given a suspended sentence and fined for waste offences.

Mr Nigel Irwin of Cameron Contracts was fined £4,500 and given a three month suspended jail sentence at Antrim Crown Court.

Mr Irwin pleaded guilty to a failure to comply with a Notice to provide information to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and failure to complete Duty of Care waste documentation. This was in respect of the illegal disposal of recyclable plastic waste at a farm at 90 Moira Road, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co Antrim.

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When officers from the NIEA visited the site in November 2013, they found approximately 280 tonnes of commercially processed, and potentially recyclable, plastic waste, partially buried in a trench on farmland. Further investigation found Mr Irwin had taken this segregated and processed plastic waste from an authorised waste management company and brought it to the site for disposal.

Mr Irwin facilitated payment to the farmer for disposal of waste at the site. The farmer has previously been convicted in relation to the illegal disposal of waste on the land.

Mr Irwin was also ordered to pay court costs of £1,150.20.

(CD/MH)