Lanarkshire waste firm accused of failing to p-p-pick up penguin properly when storing medical waste

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A dead penguin was found among piles of medical waste in a depot at the centre of a major environmental probe.The grisly discovery was made as workers cleared tonnes of material, including human body parts, following the collapse of the company responsible for disposing of it.It's thought the penguin was part of a consignment from Edinburgh Zoo delivered to the facility at Shotts.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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The company stored and processed waste from every hospital in Scotland.Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that a company called Cliniwaste stepped in to clean up the Shotts facility after the collapse of HES.Managing director Peter Wightwick, 38, said the operation took a year and everything, including nearly 90 tonnes of anatomical waste, was incinerated.

It cost his company £658,000.Mr Wightwick said that when his firm arrived in December 2019 the depot was full of bins of waste products, including human body parts.He told prosecutor Emma Jeffrey: "Pallets of containers were stacked