The Singapore High Court has dismissed two lawsuits filed by Transnational Recycling Industries against SembWaste for the alleged breach of five recycling agreements with TRI.
In the two lawsuits, TRI had claimed a total of $11.8 million against SembWaste.
Between September and November 2000, SembWaste had signed five recycling agreements with TRI to provide recycling services to a number of cities in Singapore, including Clementi, City, Hougang-Ponggol, Ang Mo Kio-Toa Payoh and Woodlands-Yishun sectors.
In April and June 2001, TRI began its recycling services in Clementi and the City respectively. It did not commence any recycling services in the Hougang-Ponggol, Ang Mo Kio-Toa Payoh and Woodlands-Yishun sectors.
During the trial, SembWaste argued that TRI’s performance in its recycling services had been poor from the outset. As a result, SembWaste exercised its legal right under the recycling agreements to appoint another recycler to work concurrently with TRI in the Hougang-Ponggol, Ang Mo Kio-Toa Payoh and Woodlands-Yishun sectors.
TRI’s continued poor performance in its recycling services in the Clementi and City sectors also resulted in SembWaste terminating the agreements for these two sectors in April 2002. The High Court agreed with SembWaste’s lawyers that it did not breach any terms of the recycling agreements it had with TRI.
SembWaste maintained that TRI’s claims were without merit and TRI should never have brought them to court. SembWaste further reiterates its commitment to act in the interest of a sustainable national recycling program and to provide the highest quality of service to the publicLatest from Recycling Today
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