Recommendation 25

The Agency also highlighted its recent achievement in securing fines of £1.5 million against a large waste company for waste export illegalities.89 The Agency has been keen to publicise this record fine for waste export breaches that the judge called “reckless, bordering on deliberate”. However, despite the company having been fined £350,000 for similar offences only two years earlier, the Agency was able to stop less than half of the shipment concerned. 16 containers were stopped but 26 containers had already left port under rolling contracts to send waste to India and Indonesia.90 Combatting fly-tipping locally