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Michael Shilling. Author of Rock Bottom (Little Brown, 2009) Michael Shilling is the author of Rock Bottom, which Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company published in 2009. This summer, the book will be adapted to the stage by the Landless Theater Company in Washington DC.
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Michael Shilling’s vehicle caught on CCTV after depositing 3 lorry loads of waste. Vehicle crushed by Environment Agency.
Truck used by Shilling to dump waste illegally was seized and later crushed.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted Michael Shilling. He was fined £4,500 and ordered to pay £6,779 costs, a £190 victims’ surcharge and £11,086 compensation to Iron Mountain (UK) PLC, at Sevenoaks Magistrates Court. A total of £22,555. The magistrate took into account his guilty plea during sentencing.
Mr Shilling, 61, of Raspberry Hill Park Farm, Iwade, Kent, pleaded guilty to controlling, or being in a position to control the use of, a Scania skip loader. He also pleaded guilty to knowingly causing waste to be unlawfully deposited at Gills Terrace, Otterham Quay Lane in Rainham Kent. The site owned by Iron Mountain (UK), on 14 December 2020.
Image shows a night view of the front of the truck with the driver's door open. The time and date can be seen at the top of the picture
Matt Higginson, Environment Manager for the Environment Agency, said:
Mr Shilling’s date of birth is 29 March 1961.
The Legislation - The Environmental Protection Act 1990
Section 33 Prohibition on unauthorised or harmful depositing, treatment or disposal, etc, of waste
(1) Subject to subsection (2) [, (2B)] and (3) below [subsections (1A), (1B), (2) and (3) below] and, in relation to Scotland, to section 54 below, a person shall not:
(a) deposit controlled waste [or extractive waste], or knowingly cause or knowingly permit controlled waste [or extractive waste] to be deposited in or on any land unless a waste management licence [an environmental permit] authorising the deposit is in force and the deposit is in accordance with the licence [the permit];
Section (5) states that Where controlled waste is carried in and deposited from a motor vehicle, the person who controls or is in a position to control the use of the vehicle shall, for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) above, be treated as knowingly causing the waste to be deposited whether or not he gave any instructions for this to be done.
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Jan 19, 2009 · Interview with Michael Shilling, Rock Bottom. Michael Shilling talks about his first novel, his own adventures playing and touring with various bands, and his current project--one he describes as Jane Eyre meets The Wire.
"Michael Shilling's debut is everything one wants in a novel: tragic and thrilling, farcical and realistic. The prose is exuberant in its range and wildness, but also in its little treasures, its unfoldings and depths.
May 1, 2007 · Michael Shilling is the author of Rock Bottom, which Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company published in 2009. This summer, the book will be adapted as musical by the Landless Theater Company in Washington, DC. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, Fugue, and Other Voices.
Jan 9, 2009 · Once, the Blood Orphans had it all: a million-dollar recording contract from Warner Brothers, killer hooks, and cheekbones that could cut glass. Four pretty boys from Los Angeles, they were supposed to be the next big thing, future kings of rock and roll.
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