WalMart to Pay $110 Million for Toxic Dumping
Wal-Mart needs to have a look at what their customers already know. B. McPherson Washington DC. WalMart has been assessed an $81.6 million fine for dumping hazardous waste materials into municipal dumps and water treatment facilities. The violations that the company was prosecuted for started in 2006 when returned and damaged packages were routed to Missouri where they were repackaged for sale in contravention with safety regulations. The court contended that while WalMart did not directly dump and repackage hazardous goods, the company that was tasked with handling the material, Greenleaf LLC, was not adequately supervised. Truckloads of hazardous products, including more than two million pounds of pesticides, were improperly handled under Wal-Mart’s contract,” said Tammy Dickinson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri . Environmental News Service In addition to the $81.6 in penalties assessed in the Missouri case, an additional $28 million in fin...