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Abbotsford composting company fined nearly $120,000 for polluting waterways

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Pacific Coast Renewables Corp. , formerly Net Zero Waste Abbotsford Inc. , received four penalties totalling $ 119,695 .

The company turns food, unprocessed wood, yard waste and meat carcasses into compost.

The effluent was found in supplemental pond discharge in ditches that drained into the Matsqui Slough and the Fraser River .

Investigators found higher than permitted levels of aluminum, arsenic, cadmium and iron.

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