As a regular visitor to the Southern Highlands and knowing family and friends who reside in the area, I wish to strongly offer my objection to this project.

A plastic waste reprocessing complex, which is the size of 15 football fields, is NOT appropriate in a rural area close to schools and residents and close to water catchment areas vital for Sydney's drinking water supplies. There is little road infrastructure in place to support such a complex. While the reality of constant truck traffic poses a threat to the well-being of locals.

Also alarming are reports of local residents being unaware and uninformed of this proposed complex, despite it being a prerequisite that appropriate community awareness and consultations take place. Community engagement appears to have been under done and now residents are left scrambling to process all the information and prepare a submission. This is poor form on the part of those proposing this complex. The cynic in me feels like this was a "tick the box" approach to community engagement.

This project is too big, too toxic and too ill-conceived to be allowed to go ahead. To put it simply: this is the wrong site for such a complex.

Thank you for the opportunity to submit feedback.

Kind regards,
Vicki

I am writing to you in regard to the development of the Moss Vale Plastics Recycling Facility
Project ID SSD-9409987.

My family lives a plastic free, waste free lifestyle. This proposal means the plastic will still eventually end in landfill just in a different form.

The site I believe is unsuitable; it is too close to the town. The visual impact is significant particularly for residential houses close by.
The building will be too big for the area impacting visually.
I believe there is no survey plan no contour plan no cut and fill plans.
The roads are narrow and the proposed amount of trucks which will travel to Moss Vale from around the country 24hour, 7 days a week operation will be a huge disruption to residents who will be greatly impacted by the noise, smell and visual impact. This will affect people’s health and wellbeing.
I presume if they are running 24 hours the place will be lit up. That is a huge impact if you live close by.
Toxic smoke is inevitable.
Odor from the whole process is of great concern.
Increased noise is also inevitable.
The water catchment will also be affected. I understand an enormous amount of water (46,300L) per day is required to wash the plastic; it then has to be disposed of and will end up in waterways or the local water plant. The contaminated water (16,00L) per day ends up in Sydney’s drinking water. We have water catching capabilities at the moment. There will be drought again leading to water shortages. Where will the water they require come from?

The position of the new plant is in the worst possible spot for the following reasons.you are proposing to turn residential rds into highways for semi trailers to enter & exit the proposed plant which would cause undue noise & dust,& put children's & adults lives at risk & also devaluing our homes,clearly who ever proposed to build this factory on this site does not live in the highlands & has no idea on the devastating impact this would have on our residential areas.

I wish to express my strong objection to this proposal of Plasrefine Plastics plant in Moss Vale.

I object to road access. Southern highlands roads are already extremely congested, especially in Moss Vale, and having another 50+ truck movements and also general traffic to and from the Plastics plant is a huge cause for concern in such residential areas. Access routes that have been shown by the GHD EIS are also cause for concern. In their EIS it states that they can use a secondary transport route of Innes Road, Moss Vale for Trucks, which would then need to continue along Garret street. Innes Road is used by St Pauls Primary school as a pick up zone for children. Having truck movements through this road will be extremely dangerous and as a parent of that school, would never want children, parents, families or teachers at risk from heavy truck movements in a small quiet residential street such as Innes Road. At pick up time this road is lined with cars on both sides parked and waiting to collect children, which causes the road to be narrow and also many people around. Also, Garret street runs along the front of St Pauls Primary school, and this road is extremely busy in the mornings for school drop off, and also again at school pick up time for buses and parents who are collecting their children from this side of the school. It will be catastrophic, to have an extra 50+ truck movements through this area, a SCHOOL ZONE area, and safety for our community should be paramount in any decisions.
Beaconsfield road Moss vale has also been named as an access road - this is in no way suitable. Beaconsfield road is not even able to handle to amount of residential traffic, let alone that of truck and extra car movements. Its an uncurbed road with no paths, in which many school children walk to and from schools and bus zones. Residents from many neighbouring streets also walk this road with elderly, young children and dogs. There is also an Early Childcare centre on Beaconsfield road, this has families coming and going throughout the day to drop off and collect children. I also have a child at this daycare centre and I have strong concerns regarding safety.

An extra 50+ truck movements, along side extra regular transport to this Plasrefine site will cause not only have traffic congestion concerns, but also concerns regarding pollution increases, and also no doubt cause the roads to need repairing more regularly, and these roads are already peppered with potholes that can do serious damage to cars. I'm assuming this will be a rate payer expense.

I have concerns with health and safety of this Plastics plant, as they have stated that they will be producing Volatile organic compounds and these gases within our community are concerning. Micro plastics have the potential to also be released into the air and be blown far across the Southern Highlands. They can affect our air, waterways, agriculture and livestock (and even the food they produce) and of course humans as well. I am a neighbouring property and am NOT OK with this being so close to my home where I raise two small children and an abundance of animals and livestock.

The southern highlands is known for its beauty and peaceful, clean country living. Tourism flocks to the area.
And now there is a proposal for a dirty plastics plant to come and contaminate the area and also its reputation.

Also, the Riparian land with spring fed dams on/around this site and its waterways flow into the Wingecarribee river, which is also a water catchment for Sydney. How can this even be a consideration as being ok. We have the potential of huge contamination issues.

The Garvan Institute which is the ONLY facility of its kind in Australia, and is a bio medical research institute serving as an essential service nationally, can be heavily affected by the close vicinity of this proposed plastic plant.

This Plasrefine plastics plant should not be allowed to build on this site. It is wrong and the community do not want it here.

I strongly object to the above proposal on 2 grounds.
Firstly is the potential enviromental health issues that such a facility poses from both byproducts of the recycling process and potential hazardous fires in area with limites fire services.
Second is the traffic impact that will without doubt arise from 100 or more truck movements along residental roads from a 24 hour facility. Both in numbers of vehicles using these roads and the associated noise. The proposed roads are not suitable such heavy vehicle traffic with some portions have no sidewalks making local pedestrian traffic unsafe with regular heavy vehicle use.

As a resident on and off in the Southern Highlands I appreciated the beauty and peace of the area and have now retired in Moss Vale. That an industrial plant would be built so close to a residential area with accompanying noise and pollution from transport vehicles is unacceptable. Whilst I suppport recyling in all forms I also identify that the placement of the plant so close to Sydney/Moss Vale is an economic one to cut down on the costs of transport. This is a sceptical and cold heated decision based on profit margins. Australia's need to recycle is important but the solution should be one guided by the respect for all our rights to quality environments. It must not go ahead at any cost.

Having created a ban on coal mining across the Wingecarribee Shire, we are now being faced with a proposal to construct the largest plastics refining facility in the country in a dangerously close proximity to Moss Vale and Berrima. I strongly object to this proposal.

The shire is attracting a growth of population and the site nominated. being in close proximity to the town of Moss Vale with all its facilities for healthy life, raising and educating children, recreation and a clean environment, we do not need this massive 24X7 thundering procession of B-Doubles loading over 100,000 tonnes of plastic waste into this massive plant, a total eyesore on the landscape.

I strongly object to its ever having been permitted to proceed this far.

The location for this project is totally unsuitable and because of this presents risk to the community. I object on the grounds of closeness to a residential community, traffic impacts and environmental safety particularly of water for Sydney’s catchment.
Plasrefine’s proposal for 5 storey buildings is inappropriate in size and scale within the town’s precinct-the 50km speed zone is still in operation here and 5 storey buildings will stand out markedly.
The location is close to homes and schools. Surely within all the millions of hectares of empty land in Australia they could find a far better location for this large scale industrial enterprise.? Within Moss Vale’s town limits is not sensible.
Traffic in Moss Vale is already impossible. The town centre cannot cope with current amounts of through traffic, as demonstrated in the need for a new bypass. Such a significant increase in the amount of traffic would be catastrophic. Wingecarribee road infrastructure is already failing to cope. In the recent storms the Illawarra highway collapsed near Burrawang and remains closed so all the traffic has been re-routed through surrounding small country roads which are themselves collapsing as a result. Our local roads are simply not designed for heavy traffic on the scale of this proposal.
The health and safety aspects are frightening. 16000 litres a day of waste water which will be potentially contaminated . One of the backers of this project, Beijing based businessman Liu Yalin, owns companies which have been censured in China by Beijing’s Environmental and Ecological bureau. This is not a man who inspires trust in an environmental and ecological context. Anyone who watched the Winter Olympics could see the lack of environmental sensitivity in Beijing and this man has been censured even in China whose values in this area do not match Australian ones.
I do not understand enough about air quality implications but inevitably fumes will be emitted far too close to homes and schools.
So in summary I think the proposal for this facility in this location is totally unsuitable.
The developer should be encouraged to select a location away from residential areas.

If the Plasrefine Waste Reprocessing Complex is approved, without a Social and Health Impact Assessment, it is entirely probable that those responsible will be responsible and liable for the negative outcomes to our people and their community. Rather than take risks please decline the Moss Vale Recycling Facility application.