EDay containers stuck in NZ as hazardous waste concerns checked
by 3news.co.nz (New Zealand)
26 October 2009 – Containers full of computers and electronic junk collected on eDay last month are stuck waiting to be shipped for recycling as concerns over hazardous waste are checked.
Earl Mardle, chairman of the trust which ran eDay, told the New Zealand Herald the investigation was centred on e-waste disposal and recycling company CRTNZ who had been tasked with collecting the goods and exporting them to South Korea for processing.
He said there was one set of rules for the handling of recyclable electronics and another for waste products which could not be re-used.
A team of independent inspectors, commissioned by the Ministry for Economic Development, was checking 58 containers around New Zealand.
Mr Mardle believed they were looking into whether mislabelling had occurred or if electronic waste had been deliberately included.
"We know there is an investigation and that investigation is about whether our recycling partner has complied fully with the regulations governing the export of electronic waste."
This year's eDay saw 966 tonnes of equipment collected including more than 82,700 computer parts.
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