A dog toy company has paid £4,930 towards environmental projects after it admitted failing to recycle sufficient packaging waste at its Salisbury premises.
Kong Company supplies dog toys from its factory on the High Post Business Park on the outskirts of Salisbury.
Its main product is a rubber dog toy called ‘Kong’, which is designed and manufactured in the US, and imported into the 海角视频 for distribution across Europe from Salisbury. The company also sells toys produced in China.
The company was forced to make the payment after the Environment Agency found it had broken packaging waste regulations.
The donation will be used by a Salisbury-based charity, the Species Recovery Trust, to help fund three projects including the Salisbury Drinking Fountain Campaign, which aims to reduce the number of single-use water bottles bought in the city centre.
The money will also be used to help two endangered plants – the heath lobelia and the marsh clubmoss.
The Species Recovery Trust will work with organisations including Natural England, Hampshire Rare Plant Group, Millennium Seed Bank and Devon Wildlife Trust to improve the habitats and boost populations of the two species, according to the Environment Agency.
Tessa Bowering, of the Environment Agency, said: "Enforcement Undertakings are a type of civil sanction that allow us to secure regulatory compliance from organisations.
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"They also ensure businesses don’t profit from non-compliance and provide an opportunity for them to react responsibly to any offending.
"The Species Recovery Trust is an appropriate recipient of this payment because the project they are funding looks to reduce the amount of plastic packaging waste through the reduction of single use plastic bottles."
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Kong Company saved £3,792 by failing to register with a packaging recovery scheme between 2012 and 2015.
Its finance director admitted three offences under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations of 2007, including failing to register and take reasonable steps to recover and recycle waste packaging and failing to submit certificates of compliance to the appropriate agency.
A spokesman for the company said: "We are now fully compliant and wouldn’t have contravened the regulations had we been aware of our obligations at the time."