The Tuakau Proteins animal by-product rendering and processing plant sits on the eastern bank of the Waikato River. Photo / FileResidents of a northern Waikato community feel hoodwinked and want an animal product processing company to leave after a "heavy stink" descended on their town. Tuakau Proteins Limited (TPL) operates an animal by-product rendering and processing plant on Lapwood Rd in Tuakau, on the eastern bank of the Waikato River. McGuire described the odour from TPL's plant, when the prevailing westerlies blow, as an "egregious heavy stink of a putrid nature". The Lapwood Rd plant was owned by Graeme Lowe Proteins Limited, a subsidiary of Lowe Corporation Limited, a Hastings-based company specialising in the processing of animal by-products.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 26, 2020 05:27 UTC