1. Did permit industrial waste to be dumped at an unlicensed site at Corio from 22.09.2015 to 14.12.2015, contrary to s.27A(2)(a).

2. Did contravene a requirement of a Clean Up Notice at Corio on 01.07.2017, contrary to s.62A(3).

3. Did fail to comply with a Notice to Produce at Corio on 20.12.2017, contrary to s.55(6).

Ibrahim Ali Ibrahim (Accused) a sole trader engaged in a 'skip bin' business has been fined $10,000, with costs of another $9,000, over the illegal dumping of construction and demolition waste on rented land at Corio.

The Geelong Magistrates' Court convicted the Accused of Mernda over the illegal dumping and his failure to comply with a notice from Environmnet Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) that required him to remove the waste.

The court also ordered him to clean up the site and pay EPA's legal costs of $9,000.

The court was told the Accused ran his business from the rented land at 320 Bacchus Marsh Rd, Corio, renting out skip bins to builders and landscapers and dumping the waste on the property. He also permitted customers to use their own trucks to dump construction and demolition waste there.

The site was not licensed to receive it, but EPA investigators found at least 950 cubic metres of industrial waste had been dumped there.

The industrial waste was deposited in stockpiles of various sized, the larges was 27 metres across and up to 2 metres high.

The court was told EPA had issued the defendant with an official notice giving a deadline of 30 June 2017, but when EPA officers inspected the site three weeks after the deadline, the waste was still there.

The court convicted Ibrahim (Accused) and ordered him to remove all industrial waste from the premises, take it to facilities with government-issued environmental approval to receive those wastes, and provide proof to EPA that he had complied with the order.