1,800 tonnes of waste illegally dumped by one man and his firms

A MAN convicted for waste offences after pleading guilty to illegally depositing waste at three separate sites across Wales has been ordered to pay back £322,500.

- PHILIP DEWEY

The waste was dumped at sites at Caerphilly, pictured, Cowbridge and Dolgellau

(NATURAL RESOURCES WALES)

Of the three offences, the fire service deemed some to be a “high fire risk”.

Stephen Williams, 69, from Tondu, Bridgend, was the sole company director for two waste removal companies, Wenvoe Environmental Limited and Servmax Limited.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says he first pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court in February last year to depositing controlled waste through the companies without an environmental permit at sites in Caerphilly, Cowbridge and Dolgellau between October 2018 and October 2019.

Charges against Mr Williams and Wenvoe Environmental Limited, related to offences involving operating a waste site without an environmental permit, blending or mixing of waste before disposal, and depositing 1,843.32 tonnes of mixed and contaminated bales of textile waste, at Pen Yr Heol Las Farm, Caerphilly.

Officers from NRW first visited the site in July 2019, and found a significant amount of baled waste textiles in the main yard of the farm, along with several curtain sided vehicles of similar material waiting to be unloaded.