Sustainability Champions Award

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Council's Sustainability Champions Award is an annual waste reduction initiative. The program rewards and recognises schools and early learning education centres that are leading the way in sustainable waste management by:

  • minimising waste to landfill
  • diverting materials for recycling and resource recovery
  • practising reuse and reduction of material consumption
  • engaging students and staff in waste minimisation and best practices.

Register your school or early learning centre

Registrations close Friday, 10 May 5:00 PM.

What happens next

Submit a pre-implementation site report

  • After registering, you will receive an information booklet. 
  • Collect data on the current waste services, volumes, and practices at your school or early learning education centre.
  • Use that data to produce an initial pre-implementation site report.
  • Submit a pre-implementation site report online by 5:00 PM Friday, 24 May 2024.

Submit a pre-implementation site report

Submit a post-implementation site report

  • Use the pre-implementation site report to plan, implement, and refine your waste management practices and behaviours.
  • During terms 2 and 3 implement the plan, gathering and capturing data and evidence along the way.
  • Produce your final post-implementation site report to demonstrate the improvements in your waste management practices.
  • Submit the post-implementation site report online by 5:00 PM Thursday, 5 December 2024.

Submit a post-implementation site report

Site reports are evaluated against a set of criteria that includes efforts in waste avoidance and reduction, reuse, and recycling.

All submissions will receive a report card providing feedback and suggestions for improving best practices in waste management.

Council’s Waste Minimisation Team will contact you to arrange a site visit and inspection if your school or early learning education centre meets the criteria of a Sustainability Champion. Schools or early learning education centres that are awarded Sustainability Champions will get a certificate and an award that can be publicly displayed.

Sustainability Champions resources

More information

For more information, call Council’s Waste Education team on 07 5494 5100 or email mbrcWasteEd@envirocom.com.au.

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