Reservoir paper recycler fails to stop a stink that’s ‘like off ham’

Mark Reid is very specific when you ask him to describe the smell hanging around his home in Reservoir, which is metres from a Visy paper recycling plant.Reservoir residents are considering taking legal action against recycling giant Visy over odour in their streets.Depending on the weather conditions this sickly smell – described by others as like chemicals or burning plastic – plagues the residents of Reservoir, and can sometimes be smelt in neighbouring Fawkner.

Beyond the impact on their house prices and amenity of the gentrifying area, residents say they are also suffering health-wise from headaches, blocked sinuses, blood in their nasal passages and skin irritations. Large chimney stacks on top of the plant release steam from the water-intensive paper treatment process, which smells of sulphides and volatile fatty acids – sometimes smelling like vinegar and at other times like a grease trap.

“I want them to [temporarily] close the factory because it’s running 24/7,” said resident Chris Wilkinson. But residents say the fine would have been “small change” to the company, with the personal wealth of Anthony Pratt and his family, behind the Visy empire, is $24.30 billion –This week the EPA issued another “formal warning” to the company for missing the deadline for producing designs to modify two exhaust stacks which are the largest contributors of odour from the premises. No fine was issued.

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Reservoir paper recycler fails to stop a stink that’s ‘like off ham’Beyond the impact on their house prices, residents say they are also suffering health-wise from headaches, blocked sinuses, blood in their nasal passages and skin irritations | rachael_dexter rachael_dexter What was there first, the plant or the houses? This is like someone building next to a highway and then complaining about car noise 🤦 rachael_dexter The price of being green. Suck it up. rachael_dexter Imagine being one of the tossers posing in this photo with a scowl. “Yeah we moved in next to this 60 year old factory, that recycles our waste, and now we want it closed so our shit house goes up in value”
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Reservoir paper recycler fails to stop a stink that’s ‘like off ham’Beyond the impact on their house prices, residents say they are also suffering health-wise from headaches, blocked sinuses, blood in their nasal passages and skin irritations | rachael_dexter rachael_dexter What was there first, the plant or the houses? This is like someone building next to a highway and then complaining about car noise 🤦 rachael_dexter The price of being green. Suck it up. rachael_dexter Imagine being one of the tossers posing in this photo with a scowl. “Yeah we moved in next to this 60 year old factory, that recycles our waste, and now we want it closed so our shit house goes up in value”
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