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Clay delay adds to tip costs

Construction of a new cell at the Werribee tip is continuing to cause problems and additional costs for Wyndham council. Wyndham council’s director of city...

Recyclables stored at tip

Wyndham council is storing recyclables from kerbside collections at the Werribee tip after recycling firm SKM Services was ordered to shut down two of...

Council’s secret tip land grab

Wyndham council has purchased a 2.5 hectare property near the Wests Road tip in Werribee, but has refused to say how much it spent. The...

Tip plan gets green light

A decision to approve the Werribee tip expansion has been described as “seriously flawed” by its opponents. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal last month...

Tip fight to cost millions

The Werribee tip will be at capacity by November this year and the council will have to turn away $13.6 million in commercial contracts...

Werribee tip fight heads to the courts

The fight to stop the expansion of Werribee tip will reach court in May, after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) dismissed a...

Waste group continues tip fight

  The Don’t Waste Wyndham group has lodged an appeal against the construction of four new landfill cells at the Werribee tip, labelling them a...

Big tip for art show

Wyndham council has dumped more than $26,000 of ratepayers money into an exhibition celebrating the Werribee tip. The funds included $11,739 for one artist, Steven...

‘Tip mountain’ set to expand

  Wyndham will be home to five tip mountains over the next 26 years after the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) last week gave the green...

Cash for trash passes

A black market of Werribee tip passes has cropped up online. An investigation by Star Weekly revealed a number of residents trying to sell their...

Council fined for ‘hot spot’

A “hot spot” at the Werribee tip has landed Wyndham council in hot water. The Environment Protection Authority has fined Wyndham council $7773 for failing...

Tipping point for EPA decision

  Wyndham council is still waiting on the green light from the state environment watchdog before it can open four new ‘cells’ at the Werribee...

Residents kick up a stink about tip expansions

  A Wyndham council plan to open new cells at Werribee tip would rob a generation of residents of their voice, a local campaigner has...

Council plan to pile higher at Werribee tip

Four new landfill dumps are on the cards for Werribee tip. The Environment Protection Authority is currently assessing a Wyndham council works application to extend...

Werribee tip fire claims hosed down

Claims that a fire has been burning at the Werribee tip for months are a load of rubbish. That’s the word from Wyndham council and...

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A Shaw thing

Wyndham councillor Mia Shaw will once again don the mayoral robes after holding off a challenge from Cr Peter Maynard. Seven of the eleven...