Welcome to OUR world.

WELCOME TO THE OUR WORLD

Compost facilities are put in places where people with little money and no political power live, just like cleanfills, landfills, transfer stations, rendering plants, tanneries, incinerators, oil refineries, and chemical plants, concrete plants.

Envirofert composting, greenwaste, clean?fill and Graeme Lowe Waikato rendering plant are a perfect example of that kind of siting.

When Aucklanders, Hamiltonians and all the other cities that use Tuakau as their garbage dumping ground really want to deal with their waste in a way that spreads the actual costs of our lives evenly, all parks in these cities will designate a part of their land to composting and everyone will make sure piles are aerated and properly cared for. 

Until then, the haves will dump their waste on the have nots and the argument put forth will be a dishonest one-"this is a perfect place for a composting facility".

This is a story about the political game that humans play that keeps little people little and the moneyed people in control.

This is great as long as you don't live within 5-6 kms of these facilities.
The most important thing is political pressure and loud voices!
Sadly, science and common sense have been relegated to the back seat!

The true meaning of ORGANIC!

                       'Organic'

Lets be clear about the word 'organic'.

'Organic' compounds, in chemistry, are compounds that contain carbon and usually hydrogen. This means that just about everything is 'organic' in the sense of science.

Human poop is 'organic'. Animal poop is 'organic'. Animal waste is 'organic'.

Any science-defined 'organic' material can be full of toxins, poisons, heavy metals, and other materials that are harmful to humans and the environment.

'Organic' foods WERE grown without the use of artificial fertilisers or pesticides.

'Organic' animal products WERE raised without the use of antibiotic and hormone treatments.

So using 'organic' material does not necessarily result in 'organic' food.

Most composting facilities use the word 'organic' to misrepresent since most people think 'organic' material is "human consumption ready", non-threatening to humans and chemical free.

That couldn't be further from the truth.

They use the word 'organic' as a very clever way to mislead the public.

The human, animal, medical, and food/green waste that will be processed will be full of poisonous heavy metals, toxic chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

This product is what you will be spreading on your garden and your kids will be breathing in the toxins.

Yet, technically, they can call the material 'organic' based on scientific definition. 

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul!

Envirofert & Fonterra Food Destruction Facility?

Envirofert & Fonterra Food Destruction Facility

The shed that was built, in partnership with Fonterra and Envirofert at River Road, Tuakau, North Waikato, New Zealand.
Comments from a Waikato Regional Council report, when odour complaints were investigated.
 'The food/unpacking area had an unpleasant odour, more putrid, although there was no activity there. A fogging system is for when the food is unpacked. There seemed to be a lot of food waste stored on shelves and pallets'.

Product stored outside the shed.

Typical Council! No community consultation, revenue hoarding and golden handshaking with Fonterra!

Breaking News!!

Envirofert has been issued two Abatement  Notices by Waikato Regional Council  

Waikato Regional Council issued 2 Abatement Notices to Envirofert Food Waste Composting Facility on Thursday 4th April 2013 regarding offensive and objectionable odours.
These were verified complaints from January and February 2013.
The company was fortunate not to have March 2013 included as it was just as bad but there was no Waikato Regional Council independent assessors available to verify complaints.
Definition of Abatement Notice from Waikato Regional Council's booklet 'Investigation and Enforcement Policy'
Abatement Notice
An abatement notice is a formal, written directive. It is drafted and served by council staff instructing an individual or company to cease an activity, prohibit them from commencing an activity or requiring them to do something. The form, content and scope of an abatement notice is prescribed in statute.
Where multiple parties or a company are involved in the offending it is a good practice to serve a copy of the abatement notice on all parties, company directors and relevant managers.
It is an offence to fail to comply with an abatement notice.
ODOUR COMPLAINTS 0800 800 402

In January & February 2013, Waikato Regional Council received 33 complaints alleging that the discharge of odorous compounds from Envirofert Limited's composting operation in River Road, Tuakau, North Waikato resulted in an objectionable effect beyond the site boundary.
The odour complaints were investigated & reported to a Waikato Regional Council Enforcement Decision Group on 6 March 2013. The decision makers at this meeting were Chris McLay (Group Manager, Resource Use Group), Rob Dragten (Division Manager, Compliance & Education), Patrick Lynch (Programme Manager, Investigations) and David Stagg (Programme Manager, Industry).
The decision of the Enforcement Decision Group is that the discharges of odour from Envirofert in January/February 2013 were in non-compliance with Condition 10 of Resource Consent 104419. 
Condition 1o states:There shall be no odours or particulate matter as a result of the activities authorised by this resource consent that causes an objectionable effect beyond the boundary of the site, being that land defined by Lot 1 DP 92347 and part Allotment 106 Parish of Tuakau. 
Condition 10 was mistakenly put in Waikato Regional Council documents as Condition 9. WRC have now remedied this. 
An Infringement Notice has been issued to Envirofert Limited for the alleged odours. (the alleged odours were verified by a WRC independent assessor) Two Abatement Notices have also been issued, as follows. 
Abatement Notice1 is a lawful direction for Envirofert to cease the discharge of contaminants, namely odorous compounds, into the air that  causes objectionable effect beyond the boundary of the site.
Since this abatement notice has been issued the community has had NONE of the odour complaints verified. The council are either unwilling or are again manipulating the Abatement Notice so Envirofert will look like they have fixed their problems.
Abatement Notice 2 is a lawful direction for Envirofert to engage a suitably qualified expert to prepare a report critically evaluating its composting processes and recommending improvement measures that the aim of reducing the emission odours that have an objectionable effect beyond the property boundary. This notice also requires Envirofert to undertake the recommend upgrade works and provide Waikato Regional Council with written confirmation when the improvements have been undertaken.
A decision on the compliance/non-compliance in regard to 'normal background odour' has not been made.
  Now we have been informed that the Council will make a decision on 'usual odour'. This being after the fact and with 4 years of composting stench. The 'usual odour' should have been determined before Envirofert started not after. 
Waikato Regional Council intends to put resources into making a determination as to compliance with that aspect when the timeframe of Abatement Notice 2 expires. (3 months)
A decision that will probably be made by some "experts" that do not live in Tuakau and without any input from the people that are suffering daily from Envirofert food waste composting smells.
After years of being told by the Council and Envirofert every time a "new" person started at Envirofert, they were "experts" in the field of composting, Envirofert have now been told by the Council to engage in a suitably qualified "expert". Even late 2012 we were told by the council that 2 experts were starting at Envirofert, Mike Lord previously from Perrys in Hamilton, lives in Cambridge and Andrew Corsbie, lives in Waiuku, claims he successfully ran a composting facility in the UK, (found to be lies from former boss, sacked)  now early 2014 Andrew Corsbie has left Envirofert.How many years does Tuakau have to put up with incompetent people at Envirofert while we are living with smells??  Envirofert got a resource consent change S127 to take food waste, in 2009, with a ONE windrow trial that NO ONE in Tuakau was told about and the "experts" said it could be done and the effects would be less than minor. Of course not one of these "experts" lives in Tuakau. These "experts" MUST be made accountable for their actions!!
The latest Waikato Regional Council document 'Consent Compliance Audit Report' for 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 wording of "experts" has been changed to "new Chief Executive (Mike Lord) and a new Operations Manager (Andrew Corsbie) left early 2014,both have considerable experience in environmental compliance". This was after Mike Lord told me personally that he was an expert in composting!!
We now have another new director on board, 19 February 2013 from Hamilton, with 'expert' advice, Kim Willoughby. He claims to successfully manage turnaround non-performing businesses. 3 directors Gary McGuire, Andrew Bayly and Kim Willoughby.

Where councils have, for their own undisclosed reasons, allowed a composting facility to exist too near a town, those facilities have continued to stink up the town and create breathing problems for residents through the circulation of mold and particulate matter. What is the councils going to do, to stop TUAKAU from stinking and being a health risk??