Couple-is-fined-for-e-cycling-in-home.html

Originally Posted by newattitude

I cant access the story to read all the details so I'm going on what I can see - that they were fined for improper disposal?

The investigation began in 2009 when the state of Missouri found the couple had six pallets of CRTs and improper storage of CRTs on their property. State made a follow-up visit within the next few weeks and the pallets were gone. The state also found broken CRT glass on the grounds. They were given a deadline of Feb 2010 to account for the proper disposal of the CRTs. They could not do so, and so in May 2010 the case was turned over to the state attorney general to compel them to account for the CRTs, stop processing any more CRTs, and pay a fine. In early September the Missouri AG announced that he obtained a judgement against them, $20,000. fine and they must not break any more environmental laws.

Technically, they were fined for violating hazmat laws via improper storage and improper disposal, although (as far as I can tell) the state has not announced how the Coffmans disposed of the CRTs.



An observation, not sure about this, but....cannot find that the AG ever said they had to stop their business, just implied that they had to follow all rules & regs.

They very well may have complied with the first complaint to the best of their abilities by loading them up and taken them in for legitimate recycling and had broken a single monitor and had missed cleaning up ALL the bits from it. (Not saying that is what happened, but it could have.) If they failed to document the proper disposal they would have no evidence to produce at any future hearing. Once compelled to produce evidence, they have to. Simply ignoring it gets the judgement against them as though they were in fact guilty of what they were accused of, the Judge has no choice.

Jerimiah makes a good point about documenting your loads. Better to have it and never need it than needing it and not having it. And yeah, the soil samples will tell the tale.