Three former directors of Ecoversion Logistics Ltd have been convicted and fined for their part in a failed tyre recycling venture in the Bay of Plenty.
The charges relate to the breach of two abatement notices, with Alan George Merrie and daughter Angela Kay Merrie each being fined $28,500 and Jonathan Lindsay Spencer fined $21,000.
Judge David Kirkpatrick released his judgment this week, following hearings in September and December last year.
The abatement notices were issued by Bay of Plenty Regional Council in August 2015 to put a stop to the stockpiling of tens of thousands of tyres at sites at Kawerau and Waihi Beach and also required their correct disposal. An estimated 1200 tonnes of tyres were stockpiled at the Kawerau site and a further 900 tonnes at the Waihi Beach site.
Regional council senior regulatory compliance officer John Holst said the defendants began stockpiling tyres for a tyre recycling venture before the recycling plant had been established and before the required resource consents had been obtained. When the defendants' tyre recycling project failed, mountains of used tyres were left sitting at the unconsented sites at Kawerau and Waihi Beach.