Choc-a-Block: Cadbury Waste Knocks out Sewage Plant

Choc-a-Block: Cadbury Waste Knocks out Sewage Plant
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People have been told not to swim at many of Hobart’s beaches after industrial waste from a chocolate factory hobbled a sewage treatment plant.

TasWater says a Cadbury chocolate factory, owned by Mondelez International, discharged a “big spike of sugary water” into the facility, killing the Cameron Bay wastewater plant bacteria that eat sewage.