The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A recycling company have denied keeping waste catalytic converters at two sites in Lincolnshire in a manner likely to cause pollution or harm to human health.
Edvars Stancik, who is a director of Platinum Group Metals Recycling Ltd, appeared by videolink at Lincoln Crown Court in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
The court heard Stancik is currently living in Lithuania and was the sole director of the recycling company which operated at two sites in Long Sutton.
Stancik and the company pleaded not guilty to eight charges brought by Environment Agency at the two sites in St Thomas Court and Limewalk, Long Sutton.
It is alleged the company and Stancik were operating a regulated facility at the two sites, namely a waste operation, otherwise in accordance with an environmental permit.
They are also accused of keeping controlled waste at the two sites, namely waste catalytic converters, in a manner likely to cause pollution or harm to human health.
Stancik also denies two charges of causing a company to commit an offence contrary to the Enviromental Protection Act 1990, and two further charges of causing a company to opearate a regulated facility otherwise in accordance with a permit.
All the offences are alleged to have occurred between December 10, 2019 and September 8, 2021.
Judge Peter Veits adjourned the case for a trial beginning at Lincoln Crown Court on 5 August next year. The trial is expected to last five days.
Stancik was granted unconditional bail but was told he would have to attend in person at his trial and a pre-trial hearing on 22 July, 2024.
