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Crackdown continues on criminal waste

Released on 7 May 2008

Oxford City Council Environmental Enforcement Officers are keeping up the pressure on litter-louts and flytippers.

Deli Polonia Ltd of Cowley Road, Oxford is the seventh successful environmental prosecution made in the last three months. They were prosecuted on 28 April for failing to comply with a legal notice requiring them to supply the Council with details of their trade waste contract.

The notice was served after waste from Deli Polonia Ltd was found dumped at the Ambassador Avenue recycling bank near Oxford Retail Park by City Works cleansing staff.

The court gave the directors of the company a two-year conditional discharge and awarded the Council costs of £250.

A prosecution was also taken against Jenks (Oxford) Ltd for flytipping landscape garden waste in a council car park. A van was spotted illegally dumping logs and woodchippings in a car park off Meadow Lane in Oxford. The details were passed to the Environmental Health service who carried out the investigation.

Paul Jenks pleaded guilty to flytipping on 11 April in the magistrates' court . He was given a conditional discharge for six months and ordered to pay the Council's costs of £263.75.

Ian Wright, Public Health Team Manager said, "We have taken seven prosecutions and issued a formal caution for rubbish-related problems in the last few months and we've got another four cases with our Legal Team that will be dealt with soon.

"This is on top of issuing 11 Fixed Penalty Notices and 239 legal notices so far this year.

"This means that on average we are taking legal action against three people every working day for rubbish offences.