This is the wrong site. Major concerns re truck & car staff traffic on residential roads, water usage from our local water supply. We had the severe fires in 2020 & they will come again sadly. Impact on our water & air quality. Children’s safely on the proposed access roads - it’s incomprehensible that these roads are even part of the submission. The southern highlands is a well known tourist destination as even a day trip so this traffic & smell would seriously impact the future for our region. We have a great variety of small businesses including cafes, vineyards, art galleries, beautiful shops. The livelihoods of these businesses cannot be put in jeopardy. They all survived Covid restrictions so no way do they deserve any more threats. People come here for the country getaway.
If Plasrefine is approved we can say goodbye to our future as a tourist destination. If they are allowed in more will follow as the land is there and just waiting for the next big business.
I totally agree that we need to recycle & repurpose plastic but the bottom line is This Is Not The Right Site. Thanks Anna

My reasons for objecting to the recycling facility are:

o Research studies show local populations living close to these facilities suffer from serious health conditions, respiratory diseases, skin rashes and eye disorders, not to mention the potential cancers caused by plastic resin compounds.
o There is no doubt that this kind of waste industry is highly toxic to the local community and the environment due to Airborne Volatile Organic Compounds emitted during the process of turning plastic waste into flakes and pellets and products.
o Plasrefine Pty Ltd is a company registered in Australia, with 100% Chinese interests.
o The Factory is proposed to be located within 150m of homes.
o The site has 2 incompatible zones, Environmental Living and an under sized General Industrial portion.
o The site has highly sensitive environmental areas (Koala Habitat), and a category 2 riparian waterway that flows directly into the Wingecarribee River, the Drinking water Catchment!
o 5 acres (2 x 10,000sqms) of buildings in a highly visible area.
o Is close to 2 schools and an Early Childhood Centre.
o Proposed to function 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
o estimated 160-200 heavy vehicle truck movements and 280 light vehicle movements per day using the local residential Moss Vale road Network, (Light vehicles over 3 shifts in the 24 hour period).
o Trucks to deliver waste Mon-Fri 7am-6pm, causing more gridlock on our already choked roads.
o Proposed to take 120,000 tonne per year of dirty plastic waste from Sydney / Canberra / Wollongong.
o Wash / heat / shred / pellet and melt then make more plastic products, greenwashed by the term RECYCLING.
o Proposing to use 20,000L of our drinking water every day to wash plastic waste.
o Proposing to pump 10,000L of contaminated water into our already overloaded sewage system.
o Prevailing westerly winds will potentially blow smell and dust and Micro Plastics over Burradoo and Bowral.
o Will directly impact the highly sensitive Garvan site where a road extension will be forced.
o Will directly impact home prices in Moss Vale.

PREFACE. We need recycling in Australia, but THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT SITE.
CONSULTATION. GHD representing Plasrefine have been misleading to our community from the get go. They have continually altered plans on the run during the consultation process. Some plans (traffic) have/are wrong. Statements regarding their consultation process & agreements with WSC (LOCAL COUNCIL) are blatant lies. This was made clear at a community meeting held by WSC on the 17/3/22 where council confirmed there has been only 3 face to face meeting with GHD, NOT several & council confirmed @ no time have council said they support this proposal. As GHD & Plasrefine representatives have claimed.
MAJOR IMPACTS. 1.SAFETY. Proposal has the potential to impact local residents,childrens bus routes,day care centre with anticipated heavy vehicle haulage through residential streets.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL. Visual- The shear size of this thing. Some 6 hectares in size, 5 storeys in height, to receive 100000 tonnes of waste by road through residential streets. NOISE- 24 HR operation, 3 kms from town centre of Moss Vale & only 250mts from local housing. 3. Water & Air Quality- development risks contamination of local water catchments & risk potable drinking water. 4.SOCIAL IMPACTS- No social impact study has been instigated despite requests from WSC or affected groups. 5.FIRE RISKS- The shear size & type of developent would require, in case of fire a response that could not be adequatley met by local authorities as was the case in the building fire in our adjacent town of Bowral. I could write oh so much more but not really being computer savvy i'm giving myself a headache. Thankyou for reading my submission. Regards Christopher Tetley , on behalf of my family who have been residents of Moss Vale for 60yrs .

I object on all the following bases to this project:
1. Environmental concerns.
a. Airborne volatile organic compound emissions leading to increased incidence of cancer (confirmed link with employees and nearby residents in a number of equivalent facilities internationally), also suspected association of said volatiles with Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADHD.
b. Inability of these facilities to contain plastic particles including microparticles within the facility boundaries leading to irreversible contamination of adjacent waterways (within the Sydney catchment area).
c. Inability of these facilities to contain refuse - gross material leading to increases in litter.
2. Traffic. The increased volume of large trucks in Moss Vale and surrounding areas will have a significantly negative impact on traffic flows and costs of road maintenance. Inadequate access and major ongoing disruption to an already congested town.
3. Company and company officers are not fit and proper persons. Controlling individual has previously been charged with breaches of environmental laws in relation to the operation of similar facilities in China - country of origin.
4. Incorrect Zoning. The proposed location utilises Zoning established by a previous Council, many members of which were Councillors in the Wingecarribee Shire Council recently sacked by the NSW State Government for dysfunction and incompetence. The Zoning in this area should be reviewed as it is now incompatible with residential land releases in nearby areas.
The location is within the town boundaries and is too close to residential areas, schools, critical waterways and farmland.
Will Mathews
4 Suttor Rd Moss Vale

The proposal is not in keeping with the character of the district and is not bringing economic benefit to the rate paying public.
Instead it will create heavy vehicle road damage, traffic congestion, influx of out of district road users at times when local commuter volumes are already at capacity. The employment opportunities do not meet the high growth sectors that young people are training for in the local education centers and small businesses. The project will impede the growth of of local tourism, farm to plate boutiques experiences, and day trippers dining that have developed naturally in Moss Vale. The council should be supporting local initiatives that follow the successful growth path demonstrated in existing entrepreneurship which capitalises on natural attractions, bespoke home-wares, arts crafts and clothing shopping niche opportunities leveraging the unique assets of small town living with proximity to Sydney.
I am appalled at the waste of council resources for this project when there should be focus on enabling local creative business ideas to thrive and grow. If this project goes ahead then The council does not understand what value the community places on local innovation. We give local ideas for new small business start ups our complete support. The proposed plant is not a priority and detracts from the business offering that we have worked hard to establish.

We don't want a toxic plastic waste facility dumping dangerous materials and impacting the environment. This poses a very real danger to the community at large.

I, Maree Gail Baxter wish to add an attachment as my submission.

This development will increase the amount of heavy vehicles coming into our area - we are still a small country town and don't have the infrastructure to support what should be in a industrial area with the correct infrastructure.
The water and air quality will also be affected which is bad for health, enviornment and defeats the purpose of recycling when it causes so much damage to the environment.
I honestly do not want to be watching chimneys blowing out toxic waster from my residential street whilst we are breathing the toxic fumes.

My reasons for objecting to the recycling facility are:

o Research studies show local populations living close to these facilities suffer from serious health conditions, respiratory diseases, skin rashes and eye disorders, not to mention the potential cancers caused by plastic resin compounds.
o There is no doubt that this kind of waste industry is highly toxic to the local community and the environment due to Airborne Volatile Organic Compounds emitted during the process of turning plastic waste into flakes and pellets and products.
o Plasrefine Pty Ltd is a company registered in Australia, with 100% Chinese interests.
o The Factory is proposed to be located within 150m of homes.
o The site has 2 incompatible zones, Environmental Living and an under sized General Industrial portion.
o The site has highly sensitive environmental areas (Koala Habitat), and a category 2 riparian waterway that flows directly into the Wingecarribee River, the Drinking water Catchment!
o 5 acres (2 x 10,000sqms) of buildings in a highly visible area.
o Is close to 2 schools and an Early Childhood Centre.
o Proposed to function 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
o estimated 160-200 heavy vehicle truck movements and 280 light vehicle movements per day using the local residential Moss Vale road Network, (Light vehicles over 3 shifts in the 24 hour period).
o Trucks to deliver waste Mon-Fri 7am-6pm, causing more gridlock on our already choked roads.
o Proposed to take 120,000 tonne per year of dirty plastic waste from Sydney / Canberra / Wollongong.
o Wash / heat / shred / pellet and melt then make more plastic products, greenwashed by the term RECYCLING.
o Proposing to use 20,000L of our drinking water every day to wash plastic waste.
o Proposing to pump 10,000L of contaminated water into our already overloaded sewage system.
o Prevailing westerly winds will potentially blow smell and dust and Micro Plastics over Burradoo and Bowral.
o Will directly impact the highly sensitive Garvan site where a road extension will be forced.
o Will directly impact home prices in Moss Vale.