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The price of orange Northland Waste rubbish bags will increase by 50 cents, each due to an increase in the landfill levy from $10 to $60.
Northland Waste chief executive Ray Lambert is more concerned about what the levy will be used for than the levy itself. He says the levy has already been used to subsidise Northland Waste’s competitors, and as a result it lost the contract for the Lawrie Road transfer station.
“We are prepared to make an investment of over $5 million in a new transfer station for Warkworth that will focus on waste diversion and recycling.
If the waste levy was to be allocated to projects that compete with us, then this may reduce our appetite for investment,” he says.
