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The Bracks government has promised to "phase out" the hazardous waste plants at Tullamarine and Lynbrook.

They also plan to increase the landfill levies from $30/tonne to $130/tonne.

Seems Brack's "phasing out" programme is to relocate treated, hazardous wastes to other landfills, as 2H has advised. That way, he will impress some communities who simply haven't the foggiest idea on how hazardous waste is managed by governments and industry.

The increase in levies supposedly forces waste generators to reduce their wastes and perhaps treat it on-site. However, it also increases the risk for unscrupulous generators and treatment plants to dump their wastes covertly, to avoid paying the increased costs.

Bear in mind also, that levies raise a significant amount of revenue for local councils.

The current categories 2H mentions will increase as time goes on and he will find that eventually all hazardous wastes could be dumped at his local landfill, such as the chemical residues I have mentioned in my first post.

Having said that and with the proximity of the current landfills to residential areas, I firmly believe that all communities should treat and inter their own waste. Why should my community's hazardous waste be dumped on another community?

Which brings me to the question of the proximity of most current plants and landfills to residential areas.

These facilities reveal the incompetence of past and current governments (local and state) and their inability to forsee the future ramifications of their actions in contaminating residential areas.

Waste management and landfill operators are very reluctant to incur transport costs to more remote areas for their self-regulated operations and have powerful lobbyists to influence senior bureaucrats and officials. As a result, communities are force-fed the most toxic chemical emissions known.

After many complaints and appeals in my community over the vile odours emanating from the hazardous waste plant, the EPA simply instructed the plant to mask its pond odours with yet another chemical. Residents are blithely unaware they are still ingesting dangerous chemical emissions since they can't smell them.

Senior bureaucrats are extremely adept at exploiting public gullibility!

The NSW RTA site is right on the edge of the Paific highway on the mid north coast of NSW .
Trees still die any pace close to it and water runs of into the lake.
Never trust goverment or its children my last post should have said.
And trust council least of all! council watched as untrained bush fire personell cleaned up? the asbestos site demolished by machines.
Future deaths can be asured after my 3 highlighted storeys but goverments only insure they look blameless.
It should be noted RTA took tests of the blood of up to 16 workers from that site ,mine too and 5 years later we had never been told the results ten ton of poison two containers of radio active isotope and 8 ton of dried food! on one truck! mixed on the road!
never trust goverment.

Now this article is too much of a coincidence to pass off;

Last week a friend had received a report back from the E P A ; stating their supposed lab findings in Chemical / Hazardous substances detection /Volume;

He did not have a clue what the report was supposed to represent; so we found out;
Then asked the supposed generators of the report to explain it in a language people could identify and understand- There were no answers- they did not understand- typical Bureaucratic guess work and clueless ;

For what I could find out, it resembled more of a launch pad in Huston Texas than anything close Australia has to offer as an Explanation;

The good part of this saga is thank heavens they are Government programmed Automatons and not Nuclear Lab Physicist’s : Or then we would be in serious trouble.

Often as we see some one with a storey to tell we think its just his/her hobby horse and it may not be true.
Well mine is and twenty more could be told , you must never trust a goverment report, and not a council one.
Just 5 months ago the RTA had a contractor drilling holes in that dump site, concened they may not remember a union delgate rang me.
Knowing I was both there and a never paid victim of it I informed the official who works in that RTA area.
He was told no work was being conducted there! no drilling!
And council? past worklife in uncovering ilegale dumping of raw sewage in street gutters was placed before them.
Evdence it was takeing place here , not denied by council.
But no action! why? because the perpertrator always aledges council inspectors are biased against him!
never expect a goverment department to act with honor.

At this moment am trying to expose what the EPA has done with Hazardous Waste being put in Municipal Landfill and at the same time trying to prevent SITA from changing their Council Permit to remove the Council as the Responsible Authority.

I do not trust the EPA, but I believe that with Councils although we don't allways get the decision that we believe is correct, We do at least have a chance to object and take it higher if need be. The Council would have to advertise the change to allow Hazardous Waste. We would also get chance to organise Public Meetings, which is almost certainly going to be the case For Hampton Park and surronding area's.

On the other hand, the EPA guy told me that the EPA advertised the changes to the regulations on their Website and in Industry related media. Of course we as mere residents check out the EPA website every week....

In the first inst. we must ensure that Councils retain some level of control over Landfill's, we may at least get a say.

Your faith in council may be ok not in mine, in the 1970,s I wandered the streets just of Canton beach in Toukly NSW.
My job without being seen was to stuff bags full of wet cement and clay into homes storm water pipes.
On such a summers day as this no rain, returning the next day many nearly all lawns would be wet with raw sewage that had been bound for the concrete drain and 100 yards later the lake ,right at the tourist tables.
Council stopped it overnight driven by clean water the pumps are know as t type twin sins on us all.
Now I live in an area know for hep outbreaks ,council acts only sometimes
On such a day as this only the smell can be seen, after rain? into the river with about 20 kids swimming in it!
We need far better than public servant council workers never trust them.