Talleys, Ernest Adams and Yoplait are among hundreds of manufacturers and brands dumping contaminants into New Zealand s drains and getting away with it.
Frank van Betuw watches as blood red water and globs of yellow animal fat gush from Dunedin s sewers into the Green Island wastewater treatment plant. The visceral, greasy liquid will clog the filters and coat the ultraviolet lights used to disinfect the effluent. They ll have to be scrubbed clean, yet again.
Van Betuw knows where the wastewater comes from and he knows the company that dumped it down the drain isn t allowed to do it, but the Dunedin City Council senior compliance officer also fears it will happen again and again.
Companies dumping contaminants down the drain: Talleys, Ernest Adams and Yoplait identified
24 Jan, 2021 07:56 PM
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Hundreds of companies have dumped contaminants into sewers in breach of their trade waste consents over the past year. File photo / Duncan Brown
RNZ
By Anusha Bradley of RNZ
Talleys, Ernest Adams and Yoplait are among hundreds of manufacturers and brands dumping contaminants into New Zealand s drains and getting away with it.
Frank van Betuw watches as blood-red water and globs of yellow animal fat gush from Dunedin s sewers into the Green Island wastewater treatment plant. The visceral, greasy liquid will clog the filters and coat the ultraviolet lights used to disinfect the effluent. They ll have to be scrubbed clean, yet again.
Talleys, Ernest Adams and Yoplait are among hundreds of manufacturers and brands dumping contaminants into New Zealand's drains and getting away with it.