That's what Parwan residents say it's like living next to the Maddingley Brown Coal mine landfill.

After a windy day, landowners in the vicinity of the Bacchus Marsh waste disposal site find their properties littered with rubbish.

Smith Road resident Jack Smith says his paddocks are turning into a rubbish heap and it's making his cattle sick.

"Depending on which way the wind's blowing, you can get paper blowing everywhere.

''During the drought the animals eat anything they can find and it's usually the paper and plastic," he said.

"A lot of the animals have got sick because they can't stomach the plastic. Some have even died. You can see the plastic when they decompose."

Reg Kirwan, who lives down the road from the landfill, said there was rubbish all over the road for days after some winds.

"It has happened two or three times this year alone. The Parwan Creek bed is filled with rubbish. All it needs is a downpour of rain for it to wash into the Werribee River."

Mr Kirwan said the rubbish should not be allowed to leave the waste disposal site. "If it happened once you'd understand that it was a mistake, but you'd think after a couple of times they would do more to cover it up properly."

Moorabool Council chief executive officer Robert Dobrzynski said the council had received four complaints since 2007.

In a written statement, he said the site was an Environment Protection Authority-licensed waste disposal centre and the council referred all complaints to that body.

An EPA spokeswoman said "no significant complaints" had been received recently about the litter.

A Maddingley Brown Coal spokesman, who did not want to be named, said litter crews cleaned up after winds.

"Every time we have a windy day, a litter crew goes out and cleans up the mess."

The spokesman said the EPA understood the nature of the business and limitations upon material being contained on-site.

"You can't stop litter from blowing out of the landfill. There's no practical way of stopping it. Plastic bags fly straight out of the trucks and litter blowing out of the landfill is not isolated to just this landfill," he said.

The spokesman said the amount of "inert" waste being dumped in the landfill each day was confidential.