Bells Containers
Liquid / sludge
Bells Containers is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1981 and 1987, covering about 2.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD05579, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05579 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bells Containers |
| Address | Sludge Farm Teesport Refinery, Redcar, Cleveland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Shell (UK) Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 May 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 1 September 1987 |
| Area | 2.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 455200, 524100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- Teesport Eston TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- B S Redcar WorksIndustrial
- ICI No.2 TeesportIndustrialCommercial
- Redcar Trunk Road LandscapingIndustrialInert
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.