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Stephanie Gardiner

From deep space to garbage tip: rural town strikes back

The observatory and its role in the 1969 moon landing was featured in the movie The Dish. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

A rural town celebrated for space exploration, an eccentric Elvis festival and fresh food production fears it will soon be known as nothing but a rubbish dump.

Parkes, in central western NSW, has been earmarked for a garbage incinerator that would process 732,000 tonnes of Sydney's waste annually and convert it into heat, steam and electricity.

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