Recycling crisis: landowners face millions in clean-up costs after SKM collapse
by Ben Butler and Josh Taylor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4MQR8)
The company, which was wound up on Friday, stockpiled tens of thousands of tonnes of recycling at rented sites
Landowners across Victoria are facing a multimillion-dollar clean-up bill after the discovery of tens of thousands of tonnes of previously unknown recycling stockpiled at sites rented by failed company SKM.
On Friday, creditors of SKM Corporate, which leased the sites and is at the centre of a recycling crisis gripping Victoria, obtained orders from the state's supreme court liquidating the company.
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