Five are fined in clampdown on fly-tipping
FIVE people have been fined over dumped rubbish after prosecutions were brought by Rochdale council.
The defendants all claimed that they had paid someone to remove rubbish from their homes, but that refuse was later found flytipped.
None of them provided any details of the people they had employed to dispose of the waste.
The five offenders in the unrelated cases all pleaded guilty at Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court to breaching their duty of care in respects to waste, contrary to the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Junior Obeng, 39, of Partington Street, Castleton, was fined £440 and ordered to pay costs of £350 and a victim surcharge of £44 over waste found fly-tipped at Chadwick Lane, Rochdale.
Mehnaz Tariq, aged 41, of Heys Street, Rochdale, was ordered to pay £80 compensation and £100 costs after waste linked to her was found to the rear of Park Road, Rochdale.
Samantha Walsh, 23, of Newlands Walk, Middleton, was fined £40 and ordered to pay £200 costs and a £30 victim surcharge over waste flytipped on Wythburn Road in Middleton.
In regards to waste dumped on Minor Street, Heywood, Tanya Stanisauskis, 32, of Hillcrest Road, Rochdale, was fined £195 and ordered to pay costs of £385 and a victim surcharge of £30.
Emily Roberts, 21, now of Elm Grove, Wardle, but formerly of Howard Street, Rochdale, was fined £40 and ordered to pay costs of £120 and a victim surcharge of £30 in relation to waste which was found dumped in Howard Street, Rochdale.
Since January, Rochdale council has prosecuted 22 people for environmental crimes, leading to financial penalties of almost £9,000.
A further 14 people are due in court soon and 11 other cases are being prepared.
Coun Neil Emmott, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said: “We will pursue fly-tippers, people who pay to have waste removed without proper checks and litter louts wherever and however we can.
“Most people are responsible and care about their local environment, so they should not have to put up with it being spoiled by people who do not dispose of their waste responsibly.
“There are many legitimate and easy ways to get rid of waste so there is never an excuse for it being dumped in the streets or our beautiful countryside.”