Businessman is fined £450 for misleading application
The Loanhead skip hire operator was fined 450 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for deliberately providing misleading information on an application to register as a waste carrier.
James M Cunningham pled guilty to knowingly providing information which was false or misleading, while registering to be a carrier of controlled waste. Mr Cunningham completed an application to register as a carrier of controlled waste and submitted this to Scottish Environment Protection Agency(SEPA). He signed and dated a declaration stating that the information on the form had been checked, by him, and was true. The application form was processed by SEPA's registry staff and Mr Cunningham was granted a Waste Carriers Certificate.
It later became clear that Mr Cunningham had not disclosed a 2006 conviction for depositing waste on land.