Cleanaway's Western Sydney Energy & Resource Recovery Centre

I am against an incinerator being built close to a residential area, near homes, schools, hospitals and Prospect Reservoir. I am worried about the air quality with toxic gases and the extra trucks adding to the air pollution. This is a concern as I have family members with asthma. Please do not allow this project to go ahead.

I object to this project as I believe the dangerous products that will come out from this project over-weighs the good outcomes proposed. The increase in particulate emissions from this project will affect so many lives of local communities and the environments that surrounds it. As a local resident of Western Sydney I object to the Cleanaway Project to save my family, friends that live in these regions from being affected by the increase of pollution this project will bring.

As a veterinarian who owns a practice in the nearby vicinity of Eastern Creek and Blacktown, I am appalled that this is even being considered.
We cannot continue to treat the air we all breathe as an open sewer. I am extremely concerned about the toxic air pollutants and particulate matter that will be released by this incinerator into the Sydney Basin. The toxic ash that will be created, contaminated with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants is also of grave concern.
We know these pollutants have impacts on human and animal health and will circulate and persist in the environment.

My father is a long serving Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and now a retired Associate Professor of Blacktown Hospital. He also lives in Blacktown. I worry for his health as he already suffers chronic respiratory disease and for him (and his many patients and their newborn babies) to be exposed to further unnecessary air pollution is unfair.
Why do residents of Western Sydney have to pay the health cost of Sydney's waste disposal problems? It is unjust. These people are already suffering heat stress from the worsening impacts of climate change.
I also worry for my team of staff who live and work around Blacktown and are raising their young families. Who is going to pay the healthcare costs for the rising rates of respiratory and other illness this will cause? And is the company prepared for any future health related litigation against it?

We are facing a climate crisis. We have 10 years to halve our emissions by 2030 and reach zero emissions by at least 2050. How can we do this with these kind of projects going ahead? Waste incineration is the dirtiest form of energy generation, both from a greenhouse gas emissions standpoint and from the toxic air pollution produced.
Surely there is a cleaner, safer way of dealing with our waste? ( Passing legislation to make companies responsible for their own product's plastic waste would be a start).
We need to close the loop and change the broken toxic system that exists.
We do not need to use waste to produce energy to the detriment of human health, especially when clean renewable energy already exists.
Incinerating plastic and other waste, increasing our emissions and further driving climate impacts and worsening air quality is moving in the opposite direction that we need to go. Sydney and the NSW government can do better than this. Where is the innovation for a sustainable future?
I implore you to do the right thing and not let this project go ahead, your job is to protect your people, not to harm them ( you too will be breathing in this air and living in this climate - do you really want this for your kids and your grandkids?)
So upset that this is even being considered.

My objections to the construction of 'waste to energy incinerators' can be broadly grouped into 2 categories

1. Human, and hence all living entities in our environment's health
2. Zero waste and a circular economy.


1. Health.
There is no doubt that burning waste will produce particulate matter. Cleanaway itself in it's own EPI statement reveals it will release dangerous Particulates “the predominant particles being emitted by this facility are those that are less than 2.5 microns." Particulate air pollution causes death by various means, including respiratory and cardiovascular disease

It is also now established that incinerators produce high quantities of ultra-fine particulates.  There is no technology available to capture these 0.01PM’ which are invisible to the naked eye and are proven to cause a range of health problems, and are carcinogenic

It is unsatisfactory that unsorted MSW household red bin waste, Commercial, Industrial & Manufacturing waste, office, school, shopping centre, and warehouses waste, Plastic, MWOO organic material, MWOO food organics, MWOO garden organics and MWOO heavily soiled paper and cardboard will all be incinerated together. With such different products from such a varied input it is effectively unecononmic, if even possible, to monitor, regulate and address what is produced from incineration loads. The product will be waste, now possibly more toxic that the start.

Dioxins, a notebly harmful product, will not even be continuosly monitored. Dioxin is a Group 1, carcinogenic to humans                

Toxic means toxic. Unless there is a measure taken to detoxicify it, it remains a toxin. For exampke, Toxic ash used for surfacing roads erodes and releases the toxins into the envoronment. Hence local water is at risk, and potentially the broader water systems supplied..

2. Zero waste and a circular economy.

That this propsal allows burning of recyclables goes against any movement forward to a circular economy. Resources are finite.

Incineration does not elimnate the need for landfill. Quite the reverse, in that there are still wastes needed to be disposed of. Produced Fly ash now must be landfilled to a special facility for toxic waste.

Incineration allows the cycle of manufactured obsolescence to contine. It perpetuates the manufacture of ‘illusionary disposable ’ goods. The destructive mining of resources, high utilisation of energy, water and chemicals in manufacture, packaging and transport, the disposal of those resources at the end of a short useage life, is over exploitation of the finite world we live in. Resources are either renewable or not. We need to aknowledge and treat non-renewable resources as such.

Incineration produces more CO 2 than coal and gas. It is not a renewable energy and so has no role in a circular economy. Incineration is last century’s short sighted ’solution’ to our burgeoning waste production. We need to look to better solutions to the problems we create. Renewable resouces can be used.

If a resource is non renewable it needs to be kept in a state whereby it can be reused. Then, and only then will we keep this earth, our home, in a cycle that can renew itself and continue to support life as we want and need it to be.

A waste to energy incinerator sounds like a perfect solution to increasing waste production and increasing energy needs. This however is a superficial look. In the bigger picture we need to decrease our waste production and resource our energy sustainably

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More and more young families are moving further west for both affordability and lifestyle. Having multiple incinerators in our region not only makes the are less appealing but also puts our health and that of our children at risk! Personally it will certainly play a major role in the decision of our next home.

Health risks by the emissions of toxic fumes into the environment will have long lasting detrimental effects for generations.
The release of toxic ash emissions into the environment regardless of smoke stack controls and it’s impact on health and the environment. We already struggle with air pollution which has proven health risks to humans, and have seen how quality of life is impacted in countries that have extraordinarily high amounts of air pollution, why add to it by having such facilities?
We are working towards energy sustainability on a global scale whilst trying to reduce the harmful effects to the environment, yet developing these types of centres that will produce the dirtiest form of energy production.

I think it is too close to residential areas not to mention that there are many developments happening in the surrounding areas too. I think there are still farther and appropriate areas as options where they can establish it.

Too close to houses. Needs to be away from where people are living.

As per attached

I strongly object to this proposal. There are significant environmental, social and health concerns that need to be prioritised over the financial interests of the company who have submitted the proposal.

Thousands of school children and residents will be exposed to the by products of the incinerator. Property values will be negatively impacted.

A previous proposal for a waste incinerator in the area was declined due to health concerns. This proposal should be declined on the same grounds.

Name of the application is;
Cleanaway's Western Sydney Energy & Resource Recovery Centre
Application number is;
25896

I sincerely object this project as the deadly impacts that it will have on human life due to the release of air pollutants. This will not only impact the people of today but also our future generations.

Due to the close proximity to my home, I object to this project as I fear what pollutantes will be released into the air that may effect my and my families health. The building of an incinerator of this magnatude should not be allowed to go ahead in a suburban area but limited to an unpopulated area.

I am concerned about my families health and well-being there for i object to the project of an incinerator being built in western Sydney. Western Sydney is not a dumping ground. Think about our children, our future and the take the planning to build an incinerator some where else ..

Please refer to the attachments.

Please see attached Fairfield City Council's draft submission to object to the proposal.

The draft submission will be considered at Council's meeting on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The issues raised in the report represent the basis for Council lodging an objection to the proposal.

Based on the Environmental Impact Study that has been released, I am opposed to an incinerator being constructed at Eastern Creek. I don't want the area in which I live and work to be subject to the fumes that will be emitted by such an incinerator.

I'm writing to express my firm objection to this incinerator proposal. Cleanaway does not call it an incinerator, but that's what it is. Incinerators are not the way forward for waste management in the 21st century. I support recycling as the way forward for our city's waste management, and do not support incinerators which pump toxic fumes into the air we breathe.

Due to the sheer volume of this EIS, I've been unable as a community member to get across all the details within the timeframe given. I therefore request an extension to expand on my thoughts on the proposal. Can you please advise in this regard?

Hi,
For the safety of our health including our family, especially my grandchildren and my community, I strongly object to the current project. We have the rights to live in an environment with a fresh air. Thank you.

I strongly object to the project because of its potential health risks.

We do not want Cleanaway to put an incinerator in Western Sydney as it will have a detrimetal impact on our lives. We stopped a previous attempt to put one here but now they're trying again even though it was proven that it would be detrimental to the environment. WE DON'T WANT IT !!!