The tour will travel the same route garbage trucks will take if the controversial proposal goes ahead.

The Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (ECCO) yesterday finalised a public inspection of the Euchareena Road site where Orange City Council plans to establish a new rubbish tip.

A bus will depart the Orange Civic Centre carpark at 2pm this Sunday and residents are urged to take advantage of the opportunity, ECCO president Neil Jones said.

Mr Jones said you could “count on one hand” how many of the city’s 40,000 residents know exactly where the proposed tip site was.

“That’s why we have arranged this opportunity, the purpose of the trip is simply to provide any person who is unaware of the site to see the proposed location and the proposed route to get there,” he said.

“We would hope anybody who is not familiar with the route and the site can then draw their own conclusions.”

At a general meeting last week ECCO unanimously resolved to lodge an objection with the NSW Department of Planning regarding the proposal.

Mr Jones said the main basis for ECCO’s objection is that the project was no longer a regional solution and its location near Molong presented too many traffic concerns.

Mr Jones, a Greens member of Orange City Council, said a composting facility included in the project should be located closer to Orange and the city’s landfill should be railed to another landfill site, potentially Bathurst, rather than being trucked to Euchareena Road.

“To explore another site now is still quite a feasible option,” he said. People wishing to take the bus tour should contact Neil Jones on 0419 224 461 to secure a position on the bus.

Seat reservations are essential.