Hi-Quality Quarry Products Pty Ltd has pleaded guilty for breaching its licence.
Hi-Quality, which operates a landfill at 570 Sunbury Road, Bulla, will now contribute $10,000 to Hume council’s Sunbury Community Arts and Culture Precinct Project as part of its guilty plea.
The company will also have to pay the Environmental Protection Authority Victoria’s (EPA) court costs of $7000 and has been issued with an adverse publicity order which requires them to announce the decision.
The case was brought after Hi-Quality began construction of a new cell to accept waste at the landfill before it had satisfied its licence conditions.
EPA granted Hi-Quality an operating licence with the express condition that it “not start constructing a new cell without written approval from the authority” but construction went ahead without the required notice approval.
