2019-02-18 GC Agenda Att 1 to Item 8 - Draft Environment Strategy

Theme 3 – Sustainable Living
Goal: By 2030 the Noosa community is living more sustainably and is carbon neutral
 Strategy 3.1: Reduce waste to landfill
 Targets                                      Baseline                                             How we will measure progress
 Target: By 2030, all green waste and food    A total of 14,317 tonnes of green waste and          Waste to landfill audits will continue to be
 waste is diverted from landfill.             food waste was collected and diverted from           conducted every year for the different waste
                                              landfill. An audit of waste collected in domestic    streams.
                                              red topped bins in 2018 showed that on
                                              average these bins contained 17% green               Intermittent audits of red-top bins will be conducted
                                              waste and 29% food waste.                            to monitor green and food waste.
 Strategy 3.2: Encourage incorporation of more sustainable building elements
 Target: By 2030, sustainable building        A survey to be developed for residential,            Biennial survey to be developed for residential,
 outcomes are delivered through regulation,   commercial and industrial properties. The            commercial and industrial properties.
 education and showcasing best practice       baseline is to be developed, and may include:
 design.                                           Number of houses registered to
                                                        participate in the annual Sustainable
                                                        House Day in Noosa Shire
                                                   Number of houses with 3 star water
                                                        efficiency fittings (from Unity Water)
                                                   Number of residential, commercial and
                                                        industrial buildings and businesses with
                                                        rooftop solar panels
                                                   Number of homes with water tanks,
                                                        composting, and water reuse and
                                                        recycling systems (via residents
                                                        survey)
 Strategy 3.3: Adopt sustainable agricultural practices
 Target: By 2030, 80% of all grazing land     A baseline is to be developed using the ABCD         Every 5 years grazing land condition will be
 achieves best practice management for        framework and classification for grazing lands.      assessed.
 agriculture.
                                              2008 and 2015 LIDAR imagery (Light                   LIDAR imagery will be undertaken over the same
                                              Detection & Ranging) identified levels of rural      areas as the 2008 and 2015 images during the
                                              lands and sediment lost to erosion over this         term of this strategy.
                                              period.



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