The owner of a skip firm has been sentenced to 90 hours of community punishment for waste-disposal offences.
Gerald Hill, trading as Green Skips, of Belmont Avenue, Shipley, admitted one charge and was found guilty of six more under the Environmental Protection Act.
The community punishment order was imposed concurrently on four of the offences with no separate penalty for the other three.
He was also ordered to pay £1,200 towards costs.
Bradford magistrates court was told that Environment Agency officers filmed Hill's activities on a site in Bowling Back Lane, Bradford.
The court heard that Hill, a registered carrier of controlled waste, was seen moving full and empty skips to and from the site. He was also seen setting fire to rubbish.
Hill failed to comply with a notice issued by the authority requiring him to provide documentation about the rubbish with which he was working.
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