Wednesday, June 27, 2012

"Your trash gives cancer" - Farmer convicted for dumping asbestos

For years the dumping of asbestos at picnic spots put the court in Almelo farmer from B. Ham a fine and community service.

The 50-year-old pig farmer dumped its waste at least two years here and there in Wierden courtyard of Twente and Hellendoorn. Large amounts of asbestos from three barns which he broke. Inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause mesothelioma - an incurable form of cancer - that he thought not. B. only thought of the money so he could save by asbestos outside the rules to be undertaken.

The environmental detectives who were investigating the spoke of a 'seriedumper. They exposed the man after two years. A snippet of a letter to the asbestos debris was decisive. The farmer could not but confess. The prosecutor confronted the farmer with his handele:. "Your trash gives cancer. And you people knowingly exposed to that risk. "

The farmers get a fine of 2,000 euros and a community service of 40 hours. To avoid repetition, the court imposed 80 hours also conditionally with a probationary period of two years. Justice is still $ 10,000 claim. That would be B. 's advantage to the asbestos legally removed.

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