[Sqg-program] FW: Dollar Tree Stores to Pay $2.72 Million Settlement for Environmental Violations

[Perrigan, Glen]

FYI...

Dollar Tree Stores to Pay $2.72 Million Settlement for Environmental Violations

Oakland, CA (4/24/2015) - Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley, together with 45 other California District Attorneys and 2 City Attorneys, announced today that Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson has ordered Virginia corporation Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. to pay $2,720,000 in civil penalties, costs, and supplemental environmental projects. Dollar Tree Stores is also ordered to implement an improved hazardous waste compliance program at its retail stores and distribution centers in California. The judgment is the result of an investigation into Dollar Tree Stores' unlawful disposal into store trash bins of hazardous waste products. Ignitable and corrosive liquids, toxic materials, batteries, electronic devices and other e-waste, and other hazardous waste generated by circumstances including spills and damage, were illegally handled and disposed of at each of its stores and distribution centers, over 480 facilities in California. Instead of being transported to authorized hazardous waste facilities, the waste was illegally transported to local landfills not permitted to accept the waste.


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