Wagga Wagga Lithium Ion Battery Recycling Facility

This plant exploits Wagga’s zoning loopholes, dumping hazardous industry into regional areas with less political clout to fight back.

LPG storage on site adds explosive potential to an already dangerous facility — this isn’t just irresponsible; it’s deadly.

Battery fires release hydrofluoric acid, one of the most deadly airborne toxins known — Wagga residents are being treated as expendable.

There is no proven safe way to recycle lithium-ion batteries at scale, and this proposal uses the local community as a live experiment.

Evaporative water-cooling towers can spread Legionella bacteria, risking deadly outbreaks of Legionnaires’ Disease in the community.

Three exhaust chimneys pumping unknown chemical residues into Wagga’s airspace should be considered industrial assault.

Lithium fires are uncontrollable — once ignited, they release toxic gases and are near-impossible to extinguish, endangering nearby businesses, workers and emergency services.

The plant is a chemical time-bomb in a populated area — placing volatile components like lithium, LPG tanks, and chimneys near other businesses & properties is reckless.

Lithium Battery Recycling
Lithium battery recycling should not be sited in locations where a fire would spread toxic and carcinogenic chemicals creating danger for human.
Lithium battery recycling facilities have a propensity to catch fire, not only posing a fire risk to neighbours but importantly the fire spreads chemicals that are harmful to humans and animals and contaminate soil and water.
When a Lithium hexa fluorophosphate battery burns it releases hydrogen fluoride and when it comes into contact with moisture in the air it turns into hydrofluoric acid.
Hydrofluoric acid is an extremely dangerous compound.
A burning lithium battery also releases hydrogen cyanide (HCN), ammonia (NH3), chlorine (Cl2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), and Cobalt...
Tests since the last Moss Landing fire show elevated levels of toxic metals up to 24 miles (38 kilometres) away from the battery fire.
There are currently no planning standards or requirements for the siting of Lithium battery recycling facilities with some current proposals close to regional cities, towns and local communities.
Given the risk to humans within a 38-kilometre radius of a battery recycling facility, there should be planning provisions that ban the placement of them close to areas of human habitation. Additionally, the impact on livestock, agricultural soil and water and human health should also be considered as this is a food security issue.

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I am the owner of premises in the East Wagga area Not far from the proposal site
As we all know lithium batteries are a fire hazard and when alight give off very toxic fumes. I don’t believe Wagga has the firefighting Equipment or personnel for such a blaze
There there are a lot of other businesses around this area that could be affected. If a fire was to start Loss of productivity, health issues and the list goes on.
We have a Bomen industrial estate
If we were going to put it anywhere in Wagga, that’s where it should go
I could go on forever over this issue, but as usual, the government will override any objectors And allow this to proceed