Photo: NZ Herald"Tonnes" of recycling and rubbish is washing up on previously pristine Westland district beaches after an old Fox Glacier landfill breached following the recent storm. It's estimated about half of the rubbish from the old Fox Glacier landfill has been swept away into the Fox Glacier and Tasman Sea after the region's recent storm. Martin said the old landfill at Fox Glacier had been "capped" - or sealed - and was currently being used as a recycling transfer station. Tonnes of rubbish from an old Fox Glacier landfill is washing up on beaches along the Westland coast after it breached following the recent storm. What they did know is that the Fox River was currently full of rubbish "all the way down to the mouth of the river".

Source: Otago Daily Times March 31, 2019 06:11 UTC