A waste removal company has been fined £10,000 after its negligent actions led to fly-tipping in Buckinghamshire.

Following an investigation by Buckinghamshire Council’s fly-tipping enforcement team, Reds Rubbish Removals Ltd was taken to High Wycombe Magistrates Court.

The company, registered to carry waste, was found to have failed in its duty of care, resulting in the illegal dumping of waste at Long Crendon.

The court heard that on July 18 2023, a council enforcement officer attended a fly-tip at Westfield Road, Long Crendon, reported by members of the public.

The officer found mattresses, a fridge, a fencing trellis panel, and a large quantity of loose waste, traced to a business outside Buckinghamshire.

The waste was quickly gathered and secured for removal, leaving the lane clean.

Further investigation led officers to identify Reds Rubbish Removals Ltd as the culprits.

The company admitted to collecting the waste from a customer in a van rented from an associate.

The van was later returned with the customer’s waste inside, which was then illegally dumped.

Reds Rubbish Removals Ltd was called to appear at High Wycombe Magistrates Court on November 8 2024.

However, company director Aaron Reddan, 32, of Shelby Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk, was not present, and the case was heard in his absence.

Magistrates fined Reds Rubbish Removals Ltd £5,000 and awarded full clean-up, investigation, and legal costs of £2,672.44 to Buckinghamshire Council.

A victim surcharge of £2,000 was also imposed, bringing the total to £9,672.44, payable within 28 days.

The council’s enforcement team had already tracked down the owner of the van, Kenny Lee Madgwick, 39, currently of HMP Stocken, who admitted to dumping the waste.

Madgwick had previously pleaded guilty when the case was heard on July 24.

He was also investigated for another offence linked to a vehicle used to deposit household waste at Southern Road, Aylesbury, on November 10, 2023.

District Judge Sharma fined Madgwick £440 for both offences and awarded full clean-up and investigation costs to Buckinghamshire Council.

A victim surcharge of £352 was also imposed, meaning Madgwick must pay a total of £3,275.92 within 28 days of his release from custody.

Thomas Broom, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Environment, said: "Once again Buckinghamshire Council has shown its zero-tolerance stance to businesses who commit this crime.

"There is simply no excuse for fly-tipping and a business licensed to legally dispose of waste, of all organisations and individuals, should know better than to break the law in this way."