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Garden centre and composting site, Jack Moody Ltd pleaded guilty to the charges on 5 July 2010.
These included treating, keeping and disposing of composting material in a way that caused pollution of the environment, contravening the waste management licence and knowingly allowing waste to be deposited at thesite while the waste management licence was suspended.
The district judge, Judge Taylor, rejected the argument given by the defence that there was not a commercial motivation behind the offences. The judge found that the green waste material had been processed far too quickly on site.
The court heard how the Environment Agency Officers had visited the site on numerous occasions, and after manay warnings a suspension notice was served on 11 December 2007. However, the site continued to receive waste between 2 and 11 January 2008 when the Waste Management Licence was suspended.
