Spring Farm Advanced Resource Recovery Facility (or ''Spring Farm ARR Facility'', formerly ''Macarthur Resource Recovery Park'', and originally ''Jacks Gully Waste and Recycling Centre'') is a Resource Recovery Facility, Materials Recycling Facility, and

landfill A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was ...

located in Spring Farm,

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

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. Spring Farm ARR Facility currently takes 115,000 to 130,000 tonnes of

waste Waste are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor Value (economics), economic value. A wast ...

from more than 104,000 households per annum from Camden, Campbelltown,

Wollondilly Wollondilly Shire is a periurban local government area that is located on the far southwest fringe of the Greater Sydney area in New South Wales, Australia. The local government area is part of the Macarthur and Blue Mountains regions. The Wol ...

and

Wingecarribee Wingecarribee Shire is the local government area of the Southern Highlands in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Wingecarribee Shire is around southwest of Sydney and is part of regional Capital Country and to some extent can be con ...

councils plus a portion from

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. Plus an additional 10,000 tonnes per annum of commercial and industrial waste.

History

Jacks Gully landfill was initially handed over to the State from the local authority in 1973 as the existing council landfill at Springs Road became full. Jacks Gully landfill is owned by

WSN Environmental Solutions WSN Environmental Solutions was a major waste disposal company in New South Wales, Australia owned by the New South Wales Government. SITA Australia acquired WSN in February 2011 for $235AU million. The acquisition of WSN now makes SITA Australia' ...

. After major redevelopment of the Jacks Gully landfill it was transformed into an Ecolibrium Mixed Waste Facility under a 15-year contract recently awarded to WSN Environmental Solutions. This development featured a
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mechanical biological treatment A mechanical biological treatment (MBT) system is a type of waste processing facility that combines a sorting facility with a form of biological treatment such as composting or anaerobic digestion. MBT plants are designed to process municipal sol ...

system,

in-vessel composting In-vessel composting generally describes a group of methods that confine the composting materials within a building, container, or vessel. In-vessel composting systems can consist of metal or plastic tanks or concrete bunkers in which air flow and ...

and a visitor's centre. However this was decommissioned in February 2011 because of an odour footprint. The facility was acquired by

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and renamed to Spring Farm Advanced Resource Recovery Facility.

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History

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