A MAN WHO dumped bags of rubbish at a Co Donegal recycling bank was caught after council investigators found a letter addressed to him from the Department of Social Protection.<\/p>\n
Arkadiusz Grygiel appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with a number of offences under the Waste Management Act.<\/p>\n
It followed an incident in which a number of bags of rubbish were illegally dumped at bring banks at Carnamuggagh Lower in Letterkenny on 19 June 2025.<\/p>\n
Bring banks allow people to recycle small household items such as glass, plastic and food, among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Donegal County Council launched an investigation into the dumping after the bags were found.<\/p>\n
Investigators found a number of items, including a letter from the Department of Social Protection to Grygiel with his home address at Whitethorn Park, Letterkenny.<\/p>\n
Evidence of the investigation by the council was given to the court by the solicitor acting on behalf of Donegal County Council, Kevin McElhinney of VP McMullin Solicitors.<\/p>\n
The accused was charged with four different offences under the Waste Management Act.<\/p>\n
He was charged that on 19 June 2025 he did cause or facilitate the abandonment of waste contrary to Section 32(1)(a) and (6)(a) of the Waste Management Act 1996.<\/p>\n
On the same date and location, he was charged that he did cause or facilitate
the dumping of waste contrary to Section 32(1)(a) and (6)(a) of the Waste Management Act.<\/p>\n
He was also charged that he did hold, transport or dispose of waste in a manner that was likely to cause environmental pollution contrary to Section 32(1)(b) and (6)(a) of the Waste Management Act.<\/p>\n
Finally, he was charged that he did deposit household and other waste materials so as to create litter in a public place or that was visible from a public place contrary to Section 3(1) and (6) of the Litter Pollution Act 1997.<\/p>\n
Judge Emile Daly found the facts proven on all four charges.<\/p>\n
She convicted and fined Grygiel \u20ac200 on count 1(a), \u20ac200 on count 2(a), took count 3 into consideration and convicted and fined \u20ac250 on count 4.<\/p>\n
In addition to the fines, the judge awarded costs in the sum of \u20ac1,094.32 to Donegal County Council and allowed the defendant six months to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN WHO dumped bags of rubbish at a Co Donegal recycling bank was caught after council investigators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[283312,9,10,283313,20812,6368,9719,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,11165,283314,15,16,5,283315,283316,7,8,18582,283317],"class_list":["post-670553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arkadiusz-grygiel","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-carnamuggagh-lower","tag-department-of-social-protection","tag-donegal","tag-donegal-county-council","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-letterkenny","tag-letterkenny-district-cout","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-rubbish-bag","tag-social-welfare-letter","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-waste","tag-waste-management-act"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117207859519798106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}