Ten megalitre mineral water bottling plant proposed for Nerrigundah Mountain Road

Did I hear a truck? Another truck? and another, and another… . 43,836 bottles will leave that plant every day of the year. How many truck movements will be needed to haul this precious water over these local roads per day? Will the dust churned up drift across the Tuross River and settle in Eurobodalla?

Look on the bright side, at least this business could create employment in the shire when more staff are needed to maintain the roads damaged through constant battering by massive diesel trucks.

Does anyone else see some problems here? 16 million 600ml bottles. Plastic no doubt? I really don’t think there is a need for this proposal to go ahead if you consider that, from the latest figures I could find from 2018, only approximately 10% of plastics are recycled each year Australia wide. So on these figures, approximately 14.4 million plastic bottles will end up in landfill or the wider environment. Let’s say though that the recycling rate has doubled due to the 10c deposit scheme, that’s still nearly 12.8 million not being recycled. We obviously haven’t learnt a thing have we considering climate change and the environment.

I hope they are bottling the water in glass or aluminum – We do not need ANY MORE plastic bottles in our environment.