Waste is Money
Investigative reporter Cécile Meier dives deep into the waste industry.
Infrastructure
Waste is Money: What we learned
The series covered big and small firms, safety, lobbying, recycling and council contracts.
Investigations
High risk, low pay: rubbish and recycling workers ‘undervalued’
WorkSafe recorded 12 deaths in the waste industry between 2012 and 2021.
Infrastructure
Sue Coutts: Eliminating rubbish the best way to cut needless costs
We could easily cut the $1.5b we spend each year on managing our rubbish and recycling.
Law & Regulation
Waste Management refunds customers $5.6m
The company sent debt collectors to customers for money they didn't owe.
Cécile Meier
Journalist
Cécile Meier is a journalist based in Christchurch with experience covering health, mental health and social issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, she covered the aftermath of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, before joining the health team with a focus on mental health. She was a finalist in several categories at the Voyager media awards in 2018, 2021 and 2022, and won the nib Health Journalism Scholarship – senior in 2021. Cécile grew up in France and has lived and worked as a journalist in NZ since 2013.
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