SAN DIEGO–District Attorney Summer Stephan, along with 30 other California District Attorneys and the Los Angeles City Attorney, announced Wednesday that a Ventura County Superior Court Judge has ordered New Jersey-based Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. to pay $1,498,750 as part of a settlement of a civil environmental prosecution.
The judgment is the culmination of a civil enforcement lawsuit filed last month in Ventura County Superior Court claiming that more than 200 Bed Bath & Beyond stores throughout the state (including Cost Plus, buybuy BABY, Harmon, Harmon Face Values, World Market, and Cost Plus World Market stores) unlawfully handled, transported and disposed of batteries, electronic devices, ignitable liquids, aerosol products, cleaning agents, and other flammable, reactive, toxic, and corrosive materials, at local landfills that were not permitted to receive those wastes.
