SIRRL claims that WasteCo will take the metal hydroxide sludge (MHS) produced at the Project Kea plant and treat it through their facility before the toxic material is landfilled. However, the facility they claim they will use to treat the MHS is still in the design phase.
The Project Kea incinerator will produce approximately 1 tonne per day of Metal Hydrogen Sludge (MHS) as a by-product of the plasma furnace process. MHS is a hazardous substance because it contains highly concentrated amounts of very toxic material, including heavy metals.
The letter provided by WasteCo, which has been used in SIRRL’s resource consent application, is nothing more than a gentleman’s agreement. WasteCo has not even built the facility the company claims it will use to process the MHS; in fact, at the time the letter was written, WasteCo had not even lodged a resource consent application.