Two men have been fined after commercial waste was dumped on Senghenydd mountain.
Builder Peter Cave, of Nantgarw Road, and Alexander Banner-Martin, of Lewis Drive, Churchill Park, appeared at Newport Magistrates’ Court recently after an investigation into rubbish found fly-tipped in 2013.
Cave pleaded guilty to a breach of duty of care regarding commercial waste and was fined £250. He also had to pay costs and a victim surcharge totalling more than £600.
Banner-Martin pleaded guilty to depositing controlled waste on land not licensed to receive it. He was fined £440 and ordered to pay £1,000 in costs.
Cllr Nigel George, Caerphilly County Borough Council Cabinet Member for Community and Leisure Services said: “This incident of fly-tipping has proven extremely costly indeed to these two residents – which could so easily have been avoided if the waste was disposed of in the correct way.
“Fly-tipping also costs the council a large amount of money to remove, which is certainly money which could be better spent on other things.
“Our enforcement team will continue to work tirelessly to tackle environmental crime in our county borough – anyone who thinks they can get away with fly-tipping or anything else of this nature should think again.”
The fines should have been much larger, if fly tipping costs the council such a large amount of money why are such small fines dished out to those who think they can dump their rubbish wherever they choose, these small fines act as no deterrent whatsoever.
Agreed. Those fines are not a sufficient deterent compared to the risk of being caught. At least the culprits were named and shamed. Its a pity there is not more publicity over this sort of thing.
Perhaps if the total cost of cleanup that year was divided by the amount of people caught we could even the problem.
Temporary facial branding might be more appropriate.