Kiwi Waste & Recycling forced to clean up its act

Kiwi Waste & Recycling forced to clean up its act
A pile of construction and demolition waste reaches dangerous levels at the end of July at Kiwi Waste & Recycling’s Onehunga site. (Image: Supplied)
Cécile Meier
Victoria Young
An Auckland firm is cleaning up its act after complaints it was piling up flammable rubbish dangerously close to high-voltage power lines and operating two dumps without a resource consent.Kiwi Waste & Recycling, a division of Union Demolition, is urgently shifting a tall pile of flammable waste away from power lines and has lodged a resource consent application after at least a dozen complaints from neighbours and interventions from Auckland Council, WorkSafe, Transpower and Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz).The company, formerly known as Union...

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