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Environment
Stephanie Gardiner

Country towns rubbish plans to process city's waste

An inquiry into a regional NSW energy-from-waste plant has received more than 120 submissions. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

A family who moved to a small town for its affordable houses, vibrant community and quiet tree-lined streets fears a proposed energy-from-waste facility could end their country dream.

A fifth-generation Merino farmer reckons it is "deeply ironic" that a natural fibre like wool could risk contamination from the rubbish-burning plant proposed for Parkes, in central western NSW.

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