Dive summary:
- Emerald Services, Inc. (ESI) will pay Washington state $12,000 to settle violations for mishandling a shipment of waste that should have been sent to a landfill specifically for hazardous waste.
- On June 1, 2011, ESI brought 2.65 tons of oily sludge to the landfill and dumped it, the same day they began tests of the material and one week later, found out it was above the allowed toxin level for the landfill.
- The landfill, owned by Waste Management Inc., does not have a permit to accept hazardous or dangerous waste so ESI was fined $18,000, but were able to bring it down to $12,000.
From the press release:
Emerald Services, Inc. (ESI) on North Sullivan Road in the Spokane Valley will pay the state $12,000 to settle violations for mishandling a type of waste that is designated as a “dangerous waste.”
Inspectors from the Washington Department of Ecology’s (Ecology) Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program found that ESI had delivered and dumped a shipment of waste at the Graham Road Landfill that contained a high level of halogens such as chlorine. The Graham Road Landfill does not have a permit to accept waste designated as hazardous or dangerous. The landfill is owned and operated by Waste Management, Inc. ...
