A New Zealand tannery is to be mothballed due to problems with a shared effluent treatment facility.

Southland Leather of Makarewa will close its doors on December 20, having been refused permission to go on using shared effluent ponds by the ponds’ owner, Alliance Meat. Speaking to the local press, an Alliance spokesman said the tannery had gone from being a small to large contributor to the pond, and that future changes to the ponds needed resource consent, which had become a "complex" issue.

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