A FORMER Radcliffe newsagent is the latest person to be brought to court under a Bury Council crackdown on 'enviro-crime'.
Malcolm Brookes, who ran the M & C News shop in Ainsworth Road, pleaded guilty to depositing controlled waste on unlicensed land and for failing to produce waste transfer notes. Brookes, of Ashdene Close, Harwood, was fined £150 and ordered to pay costs of £414.
Magistrates heard that, in February, Brookes was asked to produce his waste transfer notes in respect of trade waste but could not do so. Then in May, commercial waste linked to M & C News was discovered near a recycling centre in Radcliffe.
Environmental services officers initially tried to trace Brookes at the newsagent shop but when that failed he was served with a court summons.
The council says businesses should pass their waste to a contractor or take it to a tip accepting commercial waste.
The contractor will issue an invoice and the tip will issue a receipt, which people should keep for two years. Council officers can demand the production of these waste transfer notes.
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