Los Angeles, San Francisco and others say carmaker improperly labelled materials like antifreeze and sent it to the wrong landfills
Los Angeles, San Francisco and others say carmaker improperly labelled materials like antifreeze and sent it to the wrong landfills
I will be honest, a lot of these vendors are lazy. They will see a certain waste that’s not supposed to be there and they will just categorize it as something else. They have simple tests like pH tests and as long as you get in that pH anything is game. They don’t care what’s in it. It’s kind of wild.
The way some people get around this is if you go out of range for their tests, they will just solidify the material and call it solid waste. This goes as a separate stream but it can be highly concentrated and more toxic than normal. This might go straight to the landfill with everything else. As long as it’s not in your waste stream it’s out of sight out of mind.
Interesting. So is Tesla fucking up so bad that they don’t even have vendors that know how to hide the fucked up job they do? Or do they have vendor’s that may also be to blame?
I would imagine it was either a whistleblower or someone from a regulation agency came by and noticed. Tesla management found out, said “oopsie”, rubbed their hands and followed with “we can grow through this experience”. These companies have a budget for fuck ups.
At one point of my life, I helped audit/ book keep for a fortune100 and boy do people not care. I have seen some places rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills because they had only 1 person managing that. They paid their bills through a personal credit card so they can get the points from their bank. Really illegal stuff. They got fired for sure but I’m just saying it happens.