Environment Protection Authority, EPA, Victoria has warned farmers against mixing prunings and felled timber with other forms of waste as the weather cools and conditions for burn-offs improve.
EPA Victoria regional operations director Martha-Rose Loughnane said the authority last year issued several reminders after receiving reports of farms, orchards and vineyards mixing legitimate burn-off materials with waste like treated timber, plastics and other common farm waste that should instead have been sent to a licensed landfill or recycling facility.
“Disposal of waste by burning is illegal,” she said.
“Common farm waste, like treated pine posts, agricultural plastics, hessian, concrete, metal, waste tyres and mattresses, must be disposed of lawfully and at a place that is licensed to accept it.”
