A pharmaceutical company is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to its waste management practices.
AHP Manufacturing Bv trading as Wyeth Medica Ireland pleaded guilty through their financial director, Mr Tim Brosnan, to two counts that on dates in 2000 and 2001 that they did within the State dispose of or recover waste materials by means of a company who was not an agreed hazardous waste contractor.
Wyeth Medica Ireland, based in Newbridge, Co Kildare, further pleaded guilty to shipping waste out of the State without a certificate; and being the consignors of waste, in the course of transferring hazardous waste, engaged an agent who mixed hazardous waste with non hazardous waste on dates in 2001.
Judge Patricia Ryan set a sentence date of July 26th next when full facts will be heard.
