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A Caerphilly man has been fined £100 and ordered to pay £203.72 court costs for carrying waste illegally. David Alexander Edwards, aged 32, of Bronrhiw Avenue, Caerphilly, pleaded guilty at Carmarthen Magistrates Court to an offence contrary to section 34(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The prosecution was brought by Carmarthenshire County Council. The court heard that on Sunday, September 18 last year police stopped Edwards in Kidwelly when they noticed a White Ford Transit type vehicle loaded with old white goods including washing machines, dryers and other general scrap. Edwards told the officers he had applied for a Waste Carriers Licence but that he did not have any transfer notes. He was cautioned and told that he would be reported to the council’s environmental enforcement section. The council’s environmental enforcement officers sent Edwards a Notice under Section 34(5) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 giving him seven days to produce copies of his was...

A Whitland man has been prosecuted by the courts for a waste offence. Silas James Lee, aged 35, of Westover Caravan Site, pleaded guilty to an offence under Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 at Ammanford Magistrates Court. The prosecution was brought by Carmarthenshire County Council. The court heard that Lee had failed to ensure he had a written description of the waste he was carrying and had failed to produce waste transfer notes as required by law to the council’s environmental enforcement officers. He had also provided transfer notes with false or incomplete information. In mitigation, the court was told that Lee could not read or write and this was part of the reason why he had failed to comply with the law, and why he had given misleading information to the officers. The magistrates were also told Lee was not now working and was in receipt of incapacity benefit. As a result he was fined £200 and ordered to pay £250 towards prosecution costs. The council hopes t...

Roads policing officers in Carmarthenshire teamed up with the local council’s environmental enforcement officers recently to target unlicensed scrap metal collectors and crack down on the theft of scrap metal across the county. Operation Beagle was carried out across the whole county and resulted in a total of 12 vehicles being stop-checked. “This was a multi-agency operation aimed at proactively targeting and searching for unlicensed scrap metal collectors and potential scrap metal thieves,” said Roads Policing Sergeant Lee Williams. “Together with colleagues from the council we stop checked 12 vehicles. Eight of the vehicle drivers were reported for not having a waste carriers licence or no waste transfer notices. “Two referrals have been made for offences under the Pollution Act, four fixed penalty notices were issued for motoring offences and one report for a driving offence. “We also seized one vehicle because the driver did not have the appropriate insurance in place for its use....