Composting site operator fined £50,000 after breaching its permit

A Cambridgeshire waste composting operator has been fined £50,000 and ordered to pay £13,336 after smells from a their operation made workers on an adjacent prestige research park feel sick.

The company failed to implement appropriate measures after the incident in July 2014 and the serving of three enforcement notices. The company had also failed to submit an adequate odour management plan to the Environment Agency before the July offence.