Michaela Meade
A Campbellfield company has been fined more than $8000 by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
Monash Bin Hire & Demolition was found to be depositing mixed construction and demolition waste at a site in Preston that was not licensed to accept it.
EPA northern metropolitan manager Jeremy Settle said EPA officers inspected the premises and observed one of the company’s trucks tipping a load of waste.
“While the driver advised that the load was crushed rock, delivered to fill a hole, it was clear that it was mixed construction and demolition waste, as it contained bricks, concrete, tiles and plastic, among other things,” Mr Settle said.
“Laboratory analysis of a sample collected from the waste also later showed that it contained asbestos.
“The driver of the truck in this instance was an officeholder of the company, who should have known better than to use waste as backfill.”
The company was issued an $8261 fine.
Community members can report pollution via EPA’s 24-hour hotline 1300 372 842 or the EPA website www.epa.vic.gov.au
