Man sentenced for offences in relation to flytipping
A man has been sentenced for offences in relation to flytipping in Birmingham.
Adrian Bivolaru, of Parkhill Road, Smethwick, was charged with: depositing controlled waste; allowing controlled waste to be deposited from his vehicle; and two charges of failing to supply information to a waste enforcement officer.
He has been sentenced to 26 weeks’ jail, suspended for two years, for depositing controlled waste and allowing controlled waste to be deposited. These are separate, consecutive sentences of 13 weeks. He was fined a total of £200 for failing to supply information. He has also been fined a total of £2,415.
Mr Bivolaru dumped plastic bags full of insulation waste in Little Edward Street in Digbeth in March last year from his Mercedes van. When investigated by the city council’s waste enforcement unit he failed to provide information as to how he disposed of his waste.
Officers searched the dumped waste and found evidence linking it to a business. Enquiries with this business then identified that on 13th March 2024 they paid a waste removals company £160 to remove waste from their premises. Officers were able to identify the vehicle used to remove the rubbish and checks of the registration plate confirmed that Bivolaru was the insurance policyholder and only named driver on the policy.
Checks with the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) team identified that the van had entered an area of the CAZ zone in close proximity to Little Edward Street on six occasions between 13/03/24 and 20/03/24. Bivolaru was issued with notices under S71 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requiring him to provide details of the driver of the van on the 13/03/24. He was also issued with a notice under S34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requiring him to provide proof that he had legitimate arrangements for the disposal of his trade waste. He failed to respond to any of these notices.
In a separate incident in Weoley Castle, a substantial amount of fly-tipping was discovered on 13th June 2023 in Silvington Close. Evidence within the waste identified an individual who paid a waste removal company to take their waste away. Further enquiries then identified their rubbish had been collected by Adrian Bivolaru who at the time was sole Director of a removal services company named Ady Bivolaru Ltd.
Cllr Mahmood, cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “This was a terrible case of environment vandalism, with piles of commercial waste left strewn across the road. People who do this have no care for the community or people who live and work in the area. As this case demonstrates, we will prosecute when we have evidence so I would urge people to report this sort of behaviour. Well done to the team that investigated and brought the case to court.”