The director of a Port Adelaide demolition and waste contracting service is being charged under the Environmental Protection Act after allegedly hindering, assaulting and using abusive language towards EPA officers.
Maurizio Corsaro and Port Adelaide Salvage have been charged with 17 separate offences under the Act.
The EPA is alleging the company and Mr Corsaro operated a number of illegal waste depots from 2017 to 2019. In addition, they are also facing charges of failing to comply with three clean up orders, along with the alleged charges relating to the incident with EPA officers.
The EPA investigated the actions of the company and its director extensively over a number of alleged unlicensed waste facilities.
In January, an appeal by the company was abandoned, meaning the three-year ban on it transporting asbestos-containing waste remains in place.
The EPA investigation found alleged unlicensed waste depots operated by Port Adelaide Salvage and Mr Corsaro, and subsequently engaged appropriately licensed contractors to remove asbestos-contaminated waste from April of last year.
The clean up and disposal through licensed facilities cost the agency more than $600,000, which it is seeking to recoup from the company. The ban on transporting asbestos-containing material is in place until September 2022, and the company was fined $37,500 in 2019 when the decision was handed down.