Mike Nahan – Liberal Party’s Position On The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s (SMRC) Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC)
The composting operation of the RRRC is not performing satisfactorily in terms of odour emissions, costs and impost on ratepayers and recycling goals. It needs to be either improved dramatically, moved or phased out altogether.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC), the state agency responsible for regulating the plant’s emissions including odour emission, has shown consistent reluctance to enforce the licensing conditions imposed on the composting plant for monitoring odour and odour emissions. Specifically, the plant has been allowed to operate without a continuous system for odour monitoring and in spite of strong evidence of odour emissions in excess of the licensed standards. Read More here: Dr Mike Nahan – Liberal Party’s Position on the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s (SMRC) Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC)
