HUGH O’DONNELL

 

If a British Policeman witnessed a man spray painting graffiti on a shop front, would he:

A. Ask the man to kindly desist
B. Shove the man in the back knocking him to the ground causing him to have a fatal heart attack
C. Stand back and watch the man spray paint over every shop for three years doing irreparable damage before arresting him

If the Policeman was actually an officer working for the British Environment Agency, the answer would be ‘C’.

Hugh O’Donnell has been paraded across the media this week for illegally dumping 70’000 cubic metres of waste over an area bigger than five football pitches, over a period of three years in Aldermaston near Reading, Berkshire.

Considering the vehicle movements necessary to tip that amount of waste, this must have been a very visual operation.

In the UK the onus is upon the waste producer to ensure that their waste is collected by a registered waste carrier (registered with the Environment Agency) and that it’s disposed of at a site specifically licensed to accept it (licensed by the Environment Agency).


The land in Aldermaston, formally a beauty spot, has been declared so badly contaminated by the Environment Agency that it must be left as it is because the money required to ameliorate the site is not available.


Either the Environment Agency didn’t know that 70’000 cubic metres of waste was being illegally tipped over three years, in which case they’re incompetent idiots and heads should role in the agency or they did know but chose to do nothing for three years in which case they’re incompetent idiots and heads should role in the agency.


As to the cost of the clean up; an authority more competent than the Environment Agency should stop at nothing with no expense spared to find out which companies chose to ignore the law and their ‘Duty of Care’ and have their waste ‘dumped cheap’. They should then make them pay for its legal disposal and land clean up.


As for Mr Hugh O’Donnell, he is guilty of nothing more than having the bollocks to rely on the inefficiency, the stupidity and incompetence of our British waste Police.


Well done Hugh O’Donnell; after his four year sentence has been cut to two for good behaviour and that time has passed, he will no doubt be back doing it again, earning lots of money in the process and considering who he’s up against, who can blame him?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8597855/Jail-for-boss-of-illegal-waste-site-the-size-of-five-football-pitches.html

BRAZIL - HOME OF WILTSHIRE'S RUBBISH

It all started when Swindon Council signed up with Worldwide Biorecyclables, a small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants, to sell materials for recycling and this was followed last year when Worldwide Biorecyclables (the small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants) began a trial contract with Wiltshire County Council and Hills Waste Solutions (Wiltshire’s partner operating recycling centres across the county) to recycle plastics.

Mr da Costa of Worldwide Biorecyclables (the small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants) is understood to have said that his company simply processed plastic collected by British companies for export to Brazil. “I have a contract with the UK supplier of refuse that it is just plastic,” he told BBC Brazil.

Worldwide Biorecyclables (the small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants) being a ‘low risk’ recycling operation benefited from minimal (seemingly no) scrutiny by the Environment Agency.

Hills Waste Solutions (a large well established accountable company) has been convicted four times of pollution offences, two of them last year; the first two convictions under the company’s previous name, Hills Mineral and Waste; however in the main these were for landfill leachate offences which are a million miles away from ‘illegal’ export of hazardous/clinical waste.

Hills Waste said: “At no time have we or Wiltshire Council supplied Worldwide Biorecyclables with hazardous waste for disposal.”

There is no evidence that any of the 1,400 tonnes of waste sent to Brazil, which allegedly included a small amount of weee, toilet seats and clinical waste, came from recycling centres operated by Hills’ where the public deposit recyclable waste and as such, why Hills has been put under the spotlight is strange or naïve?

The responsible parties are Worldwide Biorecyclables ‘company simply processed plastic’ – it clearly didn’t process anything. Allowing contamination of that nature means it went through no checks making Worldwide Biorecyclables (the small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants) negligent together with the Environment Agency for not having any interest in the export of this volume of waste.

If anything I have respect for Mr da Costa for being the co-founder of the small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants that signed up two governmental bodies both of whom have a ‘Duty of Care’ responsibility to ensure compliant disposal/recycling of waste - Swindon Council and Wiltshire County Council and arranged the shipment of 89 shipping containers of rubbish to Brazil without any scrutiny by anyone in Britain – he’s not laughing – they’re laughable!

Under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 both Swindon and Wiltshire Councils share a cradle to grave responsibility for the disposal/recycling of waste collected by/delivered to their care. Don’t blame Hills, blame the stupid Council arseholes that put their recycling in the hands of the small organisation newly created by local Brazilian immigrants – no disrespect to Brazilian immigrants intended.

LOOK AT THE STATE OF THAT

Where did this trend for mothers trying to look like their daughters come from? I’m no oil painting and couldn’t pass for having just fallen out of Next’s shop window but I do have some pride and I think an understanding of what looks good and what looks like mutton dressed up as lamb.

The ‘look’ I’m most offended by is an attractive twenty something blonde wearing tight figure hugging jeans with great ‘less is more’ make-up walking arm in arm with a bleached blonde, denim wearing, ‘more is more’ sheet of foundation caked walrus bizarrely showing far more breast than the daughter. Why do women like to show more mammary the older they get? If I woke up one morning thinking ‘I know, I’m going to show more willy today’ I’d be arrested; isn’t it only fair to expect the same of muttons.

I wouldn’t dream of going to town shopping wearing tight shorts emphasising my meat and two veg with my belly protruding under a tad too small t shirt. Not only would I be rightfully embarrassed and deserve to be punched but I owe a Duty of Care to other pavement/town users not to spark the gag reflex.

Can we pass a law against this – yes we can.