The NSW Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy 2003 challenges the municipal and commercial sectors of NSW with a target of dramatically increasing the recovery of materials from waste.

Veolia Environmental Services (Collex) is helping to meet this challenge by developing new alternative waste treatment facilities: the Woodlawn Alternative Sorting and Processing (WASP) and the Woodlawn Composted Organics and Greenwaste (WOCOG) facilities.

The WASP facility has been designed to recover resources from waste. This new facility will be located at Collex's Woodlawn Eco-Precinct, complementing the existing resource recovery activities of the Woodlawn Bioreactor.

Woodlawn Alternative Sorting and Processing (WASP) is a resource recovery facility that will:

1. use existing rail infrastructure to transport waste from the Sydney Metropolitan Region
2. sort waste received by machine and by hand
3. recover recyclable materials
4. compost the organic fraction of the waste for use in on-site rehabilitation
5. divert up to 80% of waste from landfill

The Woodlawn Composted Organics and Greenwaste (WOCOG) facility will produce a high quality compost from source separated garden organics, for use in on-site rehabilitation and soil improvement.

Umwelt (Australia) Pty Limited (Umwelt) has prepared the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the project, which was submitted to the NSW Department of Planning in November 2006. The EA is now on display. You can view the EA online on the downloads page or view a hard copy at:

1. Department of Planning: Information Centre, 23-33 Bridge Street, Sydney;
2. Goulburn Mulwaree Council, 184-194 Bourke Street, Goulburn;
3. Palerang Council, 4 Majara Street, Bungendore or
4. Nature Conservation Council, Level 5, 362 Kent Street, Sydney

You are invited to make a written submission on this proposal. This submission should include:

1. your name and address;
2. the project application number (06_0239);
3. a statement on whether you support or object to the proposal; and
4. the reasons why you support or object to the proposal.

Your submission must reach the Department by Monday 18 December 2006, and should be:

1. faxed to: 9228 6466; or
2. emailed to: jacqueline.ingham@planning.nsw.gov.au; or
3. posted to: Major Development Assessment, Department of Planning, GPO Box 39, SYDNEY NSW 2001

Under section 75H of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 the Director-General is required to provide copies of submissions received during the exhibition period, or a report of the issues raised in those submissions, to the proponent and other interested public authorities. If you do not want your submission to be made available to the proponent or these public authorities, please state this in your submission.

This website provides information on Collex, the Woodlawn Alternative Waste Technology Project and opportunities for community input into the proposal as a part of the community consultation program being undertaken by Collex and Umwelt.