The tyre dump on Puketapu Road in TaupÅ s Western Bays which is concerning Mayor David Trewavas. That foam “just knackers waterways,” Trewavas told
Stuff. In 2015 the Taupō Mayor expressed “absolute shock” when the dump first appeared. The original stockpile, and now additions, are the result of a long-running saga involving Bay of Plenty rubber recycling business Ecoversion Limited – now in receivership. It began in 2015 when Hamilton City Council awarded Ecoversion a $280,000 contract to take 150,000 tyres from the failed Frankton Tyre Yard. Ecoversion failed to follow through on a promise to start a tyre-recycling business in Kawerau and with tyres piling up – and being shunted to sites like that in Taupō and a quarry in Waihī – the Bay of Plenty Regional Council issued abatement notices in November 2015.
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