A waste and recycling company has been ordered to pay just under £10,000 for two incidents of fly-tipping which were traced back to shops.

Council officers discovered that commercial waste dumped in South Oxhey in Hertfordshire had come from two stores in Borehamwood.

An investigation by Three Rivers District Council revealed both waste removals had been undertaken by Anchor Waste and Recycling Management Ltd.

Director of the company Jason Whyte, 28, of Three Valleys Way, Bushey, appeared at St Albans Magistrates Court on February 16.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of a breach of his duty of care and was fined £8,000, ordered to pay £1,449 costs and a £190 surcharge.

Whyte also pleaded guilty and was convicted of a breach of a Community Protection Notice which was given to him after he repeatedly failed to remove a caravan he had left on the roadside in Hayling Road South Oxhey.

He was ordered to pay fines of £80, costs of £360, and surcharge of £34 totalling £474.

Whyte was also given seven days to remove the caravan.

Cllr Phil Williams, lead member for environmental services, climate change and sustainability, said: "Fly-tipping is never acceptable, it is costly, unsightly and dangerous.

"We continue to prosecute fly-tippers in order to dissuade others from dumping their waste and instead use the SCRAP code when disposing of waste and arranging for waste to be taken away."