Victoria's New Litter Strategy - Creating Cleaner, Safer Places
Creating Cleaner, Safer Places - Working together to remove litter from Victoria's environment is Victoria's new litter strategy.
This new strategy outlines where we've come from, what we have achieved and what we need to do, setting out a vision for how we can get there together. It represents the next step in litter prevention and management and sets the direction to help Victoria achieve its commitments.
The objectives of the Litter Strategy are to:
- prevent litter
- improve litter management practices
- meet the Towards Zero Waste littering behaviour target to improve littering behaviours by 25% by 2014, compared to 2003 levels
- achieve clean and safe public places.
These objectives will be achieved by government, industry and community sectors working together to achieve a litter-free Victoria.
What does the strategy cover?
Creating cleaner, safer places for all Victorians to share is the focal point for this strategy. It builds on current actions to create cleaner and safer public places in Victoria including train stations, parks and sporting grounds, forests, beaches, streets, roadsides and shopping centres.
The strategy provides information about littering and litterers and notes the importance of shared responsibility and partnerships. It stresses the importance of all players working together to achieve its commitments.
An integrated strategy
The strategy outlines four areas for future directions:
- A coordinated statewide approach
- Improved litter prevention and management
- Behavioural change
- Improved measurement and reporting.
Achieving cleaner, safer public places requires complementary action across all four areas.
Downloads
For more information or a hard copy of the strategy, please email litter.strategy@sustainability.vic.gov.au
Issues paper and background paper
The Litter Strategy Issues Paper was developed to assist the Victorian Government to develop a new litter strategy. A Background Paper to this provided more detailed information on all of the material covered.
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