Logo of Cape Naturaliste Community Association featuring a lighthouse on a cliff and stylized wave patterns.

Is Cape Naturaliste the best place for Busselton’s landfill?

Wrong Place, Wrong Future in Cape Naturaliste

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Busselton

A coastal landscape with rocky cliffs, green vegetation, and the ocean under a clear blue sky.

The Cape

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Dunsborough

Aerial view of a waste management facility with multiple waste piles, a wastewater pond, and surrounded by wooded areas and roads.

The Vidler Road Landfill

Deep inside a nationally significant landscape

Cape Naturaliste sits alongside the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park.

Tourists walking along a raised wooden pathway above rocky coastline, with clear blue ocean water and green hillside in background.

40+

years sole landfill

40+

years sole landfill

60km

to be trucked from Busselton

60km

to be trucked from Busselton

60+

trucks every day

60+

2030

trucks every day

license due to expire

2030

license due to expire

Classified “possibly contaminated” for over two decades

With little investigation or remediation since.

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No alternative site ever reviewed for Busselton’s waste

With no long-term waste management strategy.

Map of Busselton, Australia highlighting the Busselton Shire Landfill, liquid waste treatment facility, and proposed landfill expansion sites between Dunsborough and Yallingup. Includes traffic and geographic markers.
Map of Busselton, Australia highlighting the Busselton Shire Landfill, liquid waste treatment facility, and proposed landfill expansion sites between Dunsborough and Yallingup. Includes traffic and geographic markers.

No environmental assessment has ever been made for the Vidler Rd Site…

None before it opened, not since, and not for the proposed expansion.

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Support our campaign seeking Council to withdraw the expansion application and develop a proper waste management strategy!

Support our campaign seeking Council to withdraw the expansion application and develop a proper waste management strategy

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