Landfill breach claim

A HEARING to determine whether a local tip operator is breaching a permit by accepting hazardous waste is under way in Melbourne this week.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) case between the City of Greater Dandenong and Lyndhurst Landfill operator, SITA, will be heard over the next several days.
The City of Greater Dandenong council is took operator SITA to VCAT after it received a legal opinion from a Queen’s Counsel late last year suggesting SITA may be in breach of its operating permit by accepting certain hazardous waste.
Lobby group Residents Against Toxic Waste In the South East (RATWISE) will be present at the hearing.
The group has been lobbying council for the last 14 years to investigate whether the materials being dumped at SITA’s landfill were in breach of a permit issued in the early 1990s.