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“The company investigated building these plants in NZ and found it was uneconomic”. Evan Maehl, Waste Management NZ.
North & South magazine reporter George Driver asked New Zealand’s two largest waste management companies whether they would support ‘Project Kea’, and their response was NO. “I don’t want to state the obvious,” he says, “But you’ve got the largest waste company in New Zealand, which used to be owned by a Chinese company that operated 10 of these facilities
Waste dumper owing millions now in Australia.
A man who owed almost $3 million after abandoning thousands of bales of rubbish on land in Christchurch is now living in Australia. In September 2023, the High Court ordered Michael Denis Corcoran to pay his landlord $2.8 million. Now, he is being chased for bankruptcy.Corcoran’s ERP Group company had been unlawfully storing baled waste at several locations in and
Major fire at AVR’s waste-to-energy plant in Rozenburg, Netherlands.
Following a devastating fire at its Rozenburg plant, which destroyed the power plant section of the facility, WtE company AVR has had to divert the incoming municipal solid waste away from the plant. When operational, the plant processes 1.3 million tonnes of waste per year. The diverted waste will be taken to a landfill in Tilburg and stored until the