A Bristol shopkeeper has been ordered to pay £564 for waste offences after packaging and receipts traced back to his business were discovered in a fly-tip in South Gloucestershire. Dana Ali, 31, of Vining Walk in Easton, pleaded guilty to the offence of failing in his duty of care when he appeared at Bristol Magistrates' Court on December 12.
According to South Gloucestershire Council, the court heard that in March 2022 a fly tip was discovered at Conham Hill in Hanham, a local nature reserve which had become a well-known hotspot for flytipping. The waste consisted of two piles of cardboard and packaging materials in a wooded area a short distance from the road.
After investigating the waste, the council said its environmental enforcement officers found labels and receipts relating to ‘Bargainz’ shop on Church Road in Redfield. The shop’s owner Dana Ali was later interviewed under caution and identified the waste in the fly-tip as the packaging that had arisen from stacking the shelves to open his shop.
