Ziwi Ltd pet food manufacturing company and ZiwiPeak Ltd are being prosecuted for alleged odour and wastewater offences. Photo / George Novak
Two Tauranga companies are facing a raft of charges over alleged odour offences and wastewater discharges at or near their pet food manufacturing premises.
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has laid charges under the Resource Management Act against Mount Maunganui-based Ziwi Limited, which manufactures freeze-dried raw dog food, and
its subsidiary ZiwiPeak Ltd.
Tauranga barrister Michael Sharp entered not guilty pleas on behalf of the defendants to three of those charges in the Environment Court at Tauranga today, namely one charge each of discharging contaminated water and one charge that Ziwi contravened an abatement notice or permitted a breach of an abatement notice.
Not guilty pleas were previously entered to a further 22 charges meaning the defendants have pleaded not guilty to a total of 25 charges relating to alleged illegal air discharges and wastewater contamination discharges.
Ziwi Ltd and ZiwiPeak have denied one charge each of discharging contaminated water and three each of discharging wastewater from pet food manufacturing on to or into the land, which may result in it entering a waterway.
