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Schools and childcare centres in Ipswich are being offered air quality monitoring devices in the latest bid to understand the impact of local rubbish dumps.
The stench from the waste facilities has long been an issue with residents raising concerns for years, some saying they believe their health problems are a result of the pollution.
Ipswich City Council is again calling on the Department of Environment to do more than test the air quality.
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"The idea is that you open the canister when the smell is at its worst," Jim Dodrill from Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments told 9News.
Concerned residents who live near any of the four big rubbish tips have been given the devices by the Department of Environment to help monitor chemicals in the breeze.
Residents like Michelle Filippi, who suffers from irritations in the air.
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"I get sore watery eyes, coughing, itchy skin," she told 9News.
Additionally, there are 10 childcare centres and schools that have now been offered canisters, including Redbank Plains State High, Ridley Valley State School and Augusta State School.
Ipswich City Council has already spent about $8 million taking waste companies to court over town planning issues, and said other compliance matters sit directly with the environment department.
"If I was the minister for the environment, I would be having a team of compliance officers in Swanbank 24/7 for the next three months," Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding said.
About 26,000 complaints have been made in the last five years.
