We are not opposed to innovation or recycling.
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We are focused on protecting the community, public health and the environment, and ensuring decisions are based on common sense.
We support recycling. But we do not support untested, high-risk industrial processes being placed beside schools, daycares, homes, rural communities or productive agricultural land.
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WHAT IS THE REPOLY PROPOSAL?
RePoly is a large plastics reprocessing plant previously known as Plasrefine. The proposal was rejected by the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) in January 2025 after years of community opposition.
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The proponent has now lodged a Class 1 Merit Appeal in the NSW Land and Environment Court. They are seeking to overturn the IPC’s refusal of their State Significant Development application to build one of Australia’s largest plastics recycling facilities in Moss Vale.
WHERE IS THE FACILITY PROPOSED?
The proposed site is located close to:
– homes and family properties
– productive farmland
– vineyards and gardens
– local schools and children’s services
– waterways and wildlife habitat
– Australia’s leading cancer research facility
THIS IS THE WRONG FACILITY IN THE WRONG LOCATION
We are not opposed to innovation or recycling. Our focus is on protecting the community, public health, the environment, and ensuring planning decisions are based on common sense. We support recycling, but not hazardous industrial activity placed beside rural communities and agricultural land.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
The fight now moves to the Land and Environment Court. This is a different process, with limited opportunities for community participation and significant legal costs.
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Join us to learn how you can help support the community’s efforts to Reject RePoly.
WE MUST PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR ECONOMY AND OUR COMMUNITY IDENTITY.
WHY THIS MATTERS: RISKS TO HEALTH, WATER & RESEARCH
If approved, RePoly would become Australia’s largest plastics recycling and remanufacturing facility. It would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, within the Sydney Water Catchment — a system that supplies drinking water to more than five million people.
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The proposed site sits directly on riparian waterways that flow into the Wingecarribee River and Warragamba Dam. It is also located in a high-risk bushfire zone and there is no local hazardous-materials response capability.
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Research into microplastic and nanoplastic contamination is rapidly expanding. Early findings — including the presence of degrading plastics in breast milk and human brain tissue — have already raised significant concerns. Industrial processes that generate micro- and nanoplastics present additional, unavoidable risks.