Ian Malouf’s Dial a Dump rubbish empire has been slapped with two on-the-spot fines for unlawfully receiving waste at its proposed $300 million landfill site at Eastern Creek, before it has received a licence to operate fully.
Two fines of $1500 each were issued in August and September to Dial a Dump after Environment Protection Authority inspectors discovered hundreds of tonnes of waste on the property at Eastern Creek, in Sydney’s west.
Mr Malouf denied his companies had done anything wrong.
The EPA gave Dial a Dump an environment protection licence in June this year permitting the acceptance of some waste, Mr Malouf said. And all waste received was in accordance with that licence.
Mr Malouf, a self-made multimillionaire and Liberal Party donor, has applied for permission to turn the former quarry site, which has a recycling facility, into the biggest rubbish dump in the southern hemisphere.
The Office of the Environment and Heritage is still considering his application for the landfill licence.
The EPA’s manager of waste and resource strategy, Chris McElwain, said that under legislation the two fines would be considered during assessment of the application.
Mr Malouf said that under the relevant act any payment of a penalty notice should not prejudice the decision.
