Waste company banned from tipping at landfill site
A firm has been banned from tipping waste at a landfill site because of the risk of pollution it is posing.
Officers from Natural Resources Wales have suspended the permit for Welshpool-based Potters Waste Management to use Bryn Posteg landfill site in Llanidloes.
The permit was suspended after evidence showed the site now hold substantially more waste than it is legally allowed to do.
NRW also estimates that the site is significantly higher in places than permitted, and both reasons put Potters in breach of its environmental permit.
As a result Potters, one of Wales’ largest waste operators, is not allowed to tip any more waste at the landfill. NRW has now instructed the company to examine the potential risk that this waste poses.
Last year NRW applied other legal measures, such as serving legal notices on the operator, in an attempt to make the site compliant with its permit conditions.
David Powell, operations manager for Natural Resources Wales, said: “We try to work with operators of landfill sites wherever we can to make sure they protect the environment by complying with the conditions in their permit.
“We now have evidence that Bryn Posteg Landfill site contains significantly more waste than it is permitted to do so.
“The decision to stop waste being disposed of in the landfill is a last resort, but there is a risk to the surrounding environment as a result of over-tipping.”
“Waste sites have a permit setting out rules which they have to follow so they don’t pose a risk to the environment and local people.
“We have given the company every opportunity to comply with the conditions in their permit but they have not done this.”
Under the terms of their environmental permit, Potters, can tip up to 75,000 tonnes of waste at Bryn Posteg every year, and this must be treated in a specific way within an engineered area.
NRW’s said they are continuing their investigations at the site in Llanidloes.
