2019-04-09 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 9 APRIL 2019


Media and promotional activities
   From September to December 2018, Council partnered with the Noosa News for a 3 month
     waste education campaign. This included a weekly waste and recycling column and ideas
     on how to reduce waste.
   Weekly Facebook posts have been used to engage the community during the six-month
     period with over fifty posts. This included several campaigns including Plastic Free July,
     Waste Free Friday and National Recycling Week (NRW). These posts have been seen
     over 145,515 times. There have also been regular sliders on Council’s website, Instagram
     posts, media releases and an interview on ABC radio as part of NRW.
   Tours of the Eumundi Road landfill have remained popular with increasing numbers taking
     up the opportunity to visit the site.
   Two screenings of the movie ‘Blue’ was conducted as part of Plastic Free July. Both
     screenings were fully booked out.
   The Waste Section partnered with Sunshine Coast Council, Unitywater & Sea Life
     Mooloolaba for a Youth Ocean Crusader day. Students from Tewantin State School, Good
     Shepherd Lutheran College, Noosa District State High School and Sunshine Beach State
     High School participated in the day. The students participated in a beach clean-up,
     watched the movie Blue and discussed actions with celebrity environmental activist Tim
     Silverwood.
   During National Recycling Week in November, Waste Officers engaged with over 1,028
     people during workshops and activities. This included an outdoor movie, kids recycling art
     workshop, a slow clothing talk, upcycling clothes workshop, beeswax wrap workshops,
     information sessions, Another Woman’s Closet and an E-waste collection weekend at
     Bunnings (which the Men’s Shed also participated in).

Activities planned for February – June 2019
   Waste and recycling stalls at events – The Cooroy Fusion Festival, World Environment Day
     Festival, Festival of Water.
   Promoting Compost Awareness Week in May.
   Reviewing and updating Council’s Waste and Recycling webpages
   Talks and landfill tours for schools.
   Producing and implementing a community behaviour change project aimed at removing
     more green waste from the waste bins.
   Completion and fit-out of the new Waste Education Building – the ‘Ed Shed’.
   Preparation for Plastic Free July

3.   PEOPLE
The Waste Section’s staff numbers and positions have remained static over the period.

4.   SYSTEMS & PROCESSES

Environmental

Landfill gas extraction and Zero Emissions Noosa (ZEN) targets.




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