Article: Farmer ordered to pay pounds3,500 for burying toxic waste

A farmer who buried toxic and hazardous waste on his land in North Cornwall has been fined by magistrates.

Officers from the Environment Agency visited Tregaddock Farm, St Mabyn, near Bodmin, after receiving an anonymous tip-off and discovered waste buried in a field.

The material, which had been buried last October, included tyres, six 45-gallon drums, 12 sheets of corrugated asbestos and pesticide containers. The waste was buried in an unlined pit that had been dug into the bedrock.

Burying waste on farms is banned under the Waste Management Regulations which came into force on May 15 last year. When he was questioned, James Mutton, admitted burying the waste without consulting anyone else.

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