‘Stick to your guns’: inside the fall of a Young Rich List waste king
An afternoon coffee and a desperate string of WhatsApp messages helped seal the fate of Daniel Tartak and deliver a $30 million fine to waste giant Bingo.
The afternoon coffee meeting that would spark the downfall of Australia’s waste king, Daniel Tartak, took place at a cafe in the south-west Sydney suburb of Belfield.
It was Monday, May 20, 2019, an unseasonably warm day. Over the weekend, Scott Morrison had just been elected prime minister.
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