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Hundreds march in protest against proposed landfill
About 400 people including Kaipara and Wellsford residents and local iwi bussed south to the city to take part in the hikoi and show their opposition to the tip.
Waste Management wants to build the new regional landfill and says it is needed for Auckland’s growing population and that Dome Valley is the most suitable location.
But the local community is worried that waste will leach and pollute the nearby Hoteo River, which flows into the Kaipara Harbour.
Yes it will!
“It’ll never be right for us to stand aside and allow this tip to happen in the interests of tomorrow’s mokopuna, I was the mokopuna when we were bathing in Hoteo Creek,” Dame Naida Glavish, a politician and Kaipara local, said.
The mayor of Kaipara, Jason Smith, and his entire council also oppose the landfill.
“We are faced with an unprecedented risk of catastrophic environmental damage, the proposed landfill would poison the Kaipara Harbour for the next thousand years,” Mr Smith said.
Again, “the proposed landfill would poison the Kaipara Harbour for the next thousand years “
Emotional protests, yes, fine, but what are the solutions, and what is the government doing? So far it is far too little, while the problem is massive:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/348261/revealed-kiwis-generate-734kg-of-waste-each-per-year
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/government-spending-124m-on-waste-management-landfill-levy-increasing-six-fold.html
While controversial with some, this should be considered as a final solution, besides of others:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2005/S00147/clean-energy-incinerating-waste-and-destroying-viruses.htm
Recycling capacity is limited and recycle-ability of plastics and so forth is also limited, so waste avoidance is needed, totally new manufacturing and packaging solutions are needed, but has NZ Inc the clout to enforce this on importers and retailers who obtain so much of our consumer goods from overseas?
Action is needed now, there is too much hand-wringing and double standards, and banning one way plastic bags was not applied resolutely, as with COVID 19 much is put into one way packaging again, or still, simply for hygiene and health reasons.
What this government has so far delivered is embarrassingly shameful.
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