Recycling firm Ideal Waste Paper Company Ltd and scrap exporter Newport CH International LLC (NCH) Ltd appeared in court on Monday (September 24) charged with allegedly breaching the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations (see letsrecycle.com).
NCHs UK director Gary Bowman also faces charges.
The alleged offences are reported to have taken place between March 11 and March 25 2009 and relate to 29 containers containing around 800 tonnes of material.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges brought about by the Agency, and the trial had been set to begin this morning.
Delay
However His Honour Judge Black, who was due to oversee the trial, granted an application from the prosecution to delay the trial until an ongoing case, which is currently being heard in the Court of Appeal, is resolved.
Further details of the Court of Appeal case can not be published, as it is subject to reporting restrictions.
The trial of Ideal Waste and Newport International is now due to begin on the morning of April 8 2013, and is expected to last for four weeks.
Ideal Waste Paper, based in Swanley, Kent, has been operating for over 40 years. The company runs an office and commercial paper recycling service as well as taking material from local authorities.
In March 2011, the company relocated its operations from Bermondsey, London, after it opened a 14 million recycling complex, including a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) at the Swanley site. The plant has the capacity to handle up to 100,000 tonnes of material per year.
Newport CH International Ltd, which is based in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is the UK branch of a US-based recycled paper and scrap steel exporter, which supplies material to mills in China and other Asian countries.
The company, which was formed in 2003, also has offices in Connecticut, California, Illinois, the Netherlands and Shanghai.
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