Executive Director’s Report 2

Wipe Out Waste in Schools 3

Clean Site in High Schools 4

Inside this Issue

KESAB environmental

solutions

Newsletter

September 2015 Edition

Welcome to the third edition of Sustain for 2015.

The picture theme for this edition of

Sustain is Port Julia - commemorating

their success at the Keep Australia

Beautiful National Clean Beaches

Awards, where they won the

community action and partnerships

category. Congratulations Port Julia!

The end of term 3 is looming up on us, and schools across the state are busily working

on their submission for the KESAB & Recyclers SA Video Competition. We are looking

forward to their presentations, showcasing their schools recycling efforts and the

partnerships they have developed with their local recycling depot.

Judging is about to start for Sustainable Communities and we have entries from all

over the State, including Fowlers Bay to the West, Farina to the North, Mount Gambier

to the South and Monash to the East. We will be sharing photos and project

snapshots on our Facebook page during judging, so make sure you like our page to

stay up to date.

Our brand new KESAB website is now live. Jump on it and have a look - hopefully you

will find it much easier to navigate to the information you are after!

If you would like a story featured in the next newsletter, please email us on

communities@kesab.asn.au

We hope you enjoy this edition of Sustain!

Alex Hammett

KESAB Community Engagement Programs Manager

PS- As we are running a video competition in partnership with the Recyclers this year,

we will not be producing a KESAB Enviro Calendar for 2016.

September 2015

25 - Video Competition Entries

due

25 - Term 3 finishes

29 - WOW Holiday Field Trip

30 - KESAB AGM and Breakfast

with the Minister

October 2015

12 - Term 4 starts

November 2015

9- 13 - National Recycling Week

13 - KESAB Awards Ceremony -

Adelaide Entertainment Centre

December 2015

11 - Term 4 finishes

23 - KESAB office closure

Important Dates

City of Playford Green

Organics Project

4

‘Stuff’ 5

Litter Less Launch 5

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Beverage Container Grants

Recipients

6

Junk Craft 7

Contact Us 8

Yorke Peninsula Council Reps - Andrew Cameron, Cr Tania Stock, Stephen Goldsworthy and Port

Julia Reps- Perry Woodward, Roger Underwood and Kevin Ising at Parliament House in Darwin.

The dynamics of KESAB environmental solutions continues as the South Australian community collectively

builds on a more urgent need to engage and respond through environmentally based sustainable

practices and behaviour. Demonstrating the scope of engagement and activity by KESAB and our skilled

Education Team I take this opportunity to share some stories from across my desk that have occurred

during the past several months.

Office of Green Industries SA

July 1st announced the beginning of the “new” Zero Waste SA with the Office of Green Industries SA(GISA)

commencing operations. KESAB environmental solutions is pleased to continue our close working

relationship with GISA with a revised Service Level Agreement to deliver Litter Index Data and social

research, Wipe Out Waste schools program and implement litter education, campaigns and resources in

partnership with stakeholders who significantly add value to KESAB initiatives.

Local Nuisance & Litter Control Bill Consultation

“At last, recognition that litter is pollution!” says KESAB

During August the EPA conducted a number of community consultation sessions and presentations across metropolitan and

regional/ rural South Australia outlining the proposed Local Nuisance & Litter Control Bill. KESAB has been advocating to

respective South Australian Governments for many years to review and modernise ways and means, underpinned by regulatory

approaches, to strengthen litter reduction and enforcement in South Australia.

The National Litter Index data recently released by Keep Australia Beautiful National shows South Australia, whilst maintaining the

leading edge in beverage container recovery, is lagging behind other states when it comes to other litter streams including

plastic, paper and in some instances, illegal dumping.

The proposed LN&LC Bill also addresses illegal dumping, dust and noise at the local level encouraging councils and authorised

agencies and bodies (KESAB?) to work with community to place the responsibility fairly and squarely on litterers and polluters.

Outcomes from the consultation process will ultimately shape the final Bill to be debated in Parliament later in 2015 or early 2016

thereby enabling South Australia to once again capture the mantle of being the cleanest State in Australia.

India Trade Mission

In August, KESAB was invited to participate in a large Trade Mission to India to build

relationships and identify potential global environmental partners for the future. Needless to

say India has huge environmental challenges with the population of New Delhi alone being

larger than the whole of Australia.

Along with other trade delegates representing a variety of sectors including defence, food

and wine, water, agriculture, sports and arts, KESAB sat alongside Zero Waste SA to engage

Indian stakeholders in waste, education and options for vocational training.

From a KESAB perspective, the opportunity highlighted global needs that quite often

Australians, living in the “lucky country”, do not fully appreciate. With South Australia a

recognised leader in waste management and our aspiration towards Zero Waste, combined

with our culture and understanding of waste diversion and continuous improvement to

maximise waste as a resource, we look forward to developing long term relationships in India,

especially with a strong community interface through KESAB education and teaching skills

developed over almost 50 years.

SA Water Partnership

KESAB environmental solutions and SA Water have announced a three year program to work with DECD developing curriculum

based learning resources and lessons for APY Land schools and communities. Focus will build education, awareness and

understanding about water quality and quantity in the remote aboriginal lands. Resources will embrace teacher and student

Professional Development with action and lesson plans supported by interactive resources and learning.

From the Executive Director’s Desk

Page 2 Sustain

Karlene Maywald - Strategic Adviser

Water Opportunities, Mr Kalita

Member of India Federal Parliament

Global Legislators Organisation

State of Assam, John Phillips OAM -

KESAB Executive Director at Trade

Mission Function in Delhi

September 2015 Edition Page 3

Sustainable Communities Awards Planning

Following the huge success of last years KESAB Sustainable Awards program by broadening presentations and show casing

participating groups, KESAB is already working on the 2015 Awards scheduled Friday November 13th 2015.

This year, the Sustainable Communities program has over 150 category entries and judging for the program is underway.

Behind the scenes planning of venue and event program to “fit” as many presentations and information sharing into the

program is a challenge. This year we are seeking to include displays by KESAB stakeholders and partners to encourage interface

between “Green” sectors and the community.

Community action is the core ingredient of Sustainable Communities and the face of environmental sustainability continues to

change and demand responses to new challenges.

The Awards event is one way of ensuring information exchange and strengthening communication between the broad

spectrum of community groups and actions, and each year KESAB is seeking to value add to overall environmental outcomes.

John Phillips OAM

Executive Director

From the Executive Director’s Desk continued…...

Immaculate Heart of Mary school, got into a week of nude food for Keep Australia Beautiful week.

To see whether there was a noticeable difference, they conducted a Bin Materials Audit in

a ‘normal’ week, and then one day during their Nude Food Week and ..

Their overall material to landfill was reduced by 58%, which included:

a 58% reduction in Food and Drink Packaging

an 85% reduction in Uneaten (still wrapped) food.

Furthermore, there was a positive response from families, who found that being able to see

the audit results laid out at school at the end of the day was critical in helping them make

simple changes.

Well done to Immaculate Heart of Mary -we look forward to seeing if they can keep up

their Nude Food culture.

Wipe Out Waste in Schools

Example of uneaten food found during

previous audits

Meet a Road Watch Group

4 WD Adventurers Club

Page 4 Sustain

Clean Site® - Focus on SA High Schools

KESAB’s Clean Site® program provides industry educational material developed

and implemented in partnership with state and local government, Master Builders

SA, Housing Industry Association and building and construction industry

organisations.

The program delivers education and training embracing best practice on

construction sites through on site demonstration and information resource

material to engage the building and construction sectors in environmental

sustainability, best practice site management and resource recovery

opportunities.

Deliverables embrace structured environmental toolbox inductions engaging

students through a state wide network of high school students via the

Doorways2Construction initiative as a result of a partnership with the Construction

Industry Training Board.

Learning and education is facilitated by a skilled trainer delivering materials and resources developed by key stakeholders and

regularly reviewed and upgraded to meet environmental sustainability education standards and regulatory changes.

Recent highlights have included:

Delivery of ‘Environmental Toolboxes’ which support industry health and

safety inductions on major construction sites to provide onsite action to

complement and support Environmental Management Systems, e.g., over

200 contractors on BADGE major construction projects

Increased focus on Construction Industry Training Board

Doorways2Construction program with delivery of environmental toolbox

inductions to statewide network that included 20 High Schools, over 470

students and 30 teachers over the past 12 months.

Recently, Clean Site® program coordinator, Dick Olesinski travelled to the south

east visiting schools in Bordertown, Millicent and Mount Gambier delivering

environmental toolbox induction training and reaching almost 100 students.

Participants completed assessments which provide them with the environmental

awareness and knowledge required on today’s modern construction site.

KESAB’s Clean Site® program provides a simple and cost effective approach to the building and construction sector, schools

and councils, to raise the bar in order to comply with environmental legislation to ensure a sustainable future for South Australia.

City of Playford Green Organics Project

KESAB conducted a food waste pilot program with the City of Playford between May

and July 2015. The project targeted a sample of residents with a green organics

collection service.

Approximately 200 residents were engaged through face to face conversations (via

doorstepping). Doorstepping provided an opportunity to deliver education which

assists residents in understanding the full potential of the green organics bin for food

recycling. One third of residents spoken to through the doorstepping program

pledged their commitment to food scrap recycling, allowing a sticker demonstrating

their commitment to be placed on their green organics bin.

Inspections of the waste and green organics bins of households who took the pledge

were undertaken over two collection weeks, to measure if residents were diverting

their food scraps. Inspections showed almost 70% of green bins, and approximately

15% of waste bins, contained food.

To complete the project, a bin audit of waste and green bins was conducted to measure the diversion rate of food. Data was

compared between residents who had been spoken to through the program, and residents who hadn’t.

The audit showed that people who received face to face education diverted an average of 3.80kg of food in their green bin

per week; three times as much as people not spoken to through the program. Over the course of a year, this would equate to

around 100kgs of food per household diverted from landfill. An excellent result!

KESAB Clean Site® program coordinator, Dick

Olesinski delivering environmental toolbox to

Doorways2Construction students.

Doorways2Construction students at Grant High

School in Mount Gambier after training inductions.

September 2015 Edition Page 5

‘Stuff!’

Litter Less Official Launch

‘Stuff! Making sustainable choices at home’

Have you ever wondered what to do with stuff at home that you no longer want or need?

EnviroMethodTM has developed a ‘Stuff! Making sustainable choices at home’ education CD resource.

The resource is designed to empower students to make sustainable choices when disposing of common

household items.

Curriculum based, the CD resource contains activity sheets,

SMART Notebook files, cross-curricular lesson ideas relating to

recycling, and fascinating recycling facts!

Targeted at primary and middle years students, the resource is

$49.95 (plus postage) and can be ordered from the

EnviroMethodTM website, www.enviromethod.edu.au.

Litter Less, the new curriculum linked multi learning resource developed by KESAB

environmental solutions was launched Wednesday 26th August by Minister for Education

and Child Development Hon Susan Close MP.

Alberton Primary School students and teachers were the first school to use the resource

undertaking a litter hazards and impacts, and a litter breakdown activity with a focus to

create a litter free school.

Following teacher surveys and extensive research of international litter resources, and the

involvement of a supportive working group, KESAB Education Team identified need for a

new Litter Less learning resource targeted at Years 4 – 7 incorporating multiple learning

styles and interactive aspects. The resource is built on a platform of lessons structured

around three themes supported by inquiry questions which are key to understanding

littering behaviour and the effect of litter in the environment.

Litter Less lessons have been written to align with the Australian Curriculum and take cross

curriculum priorities and general capabilities into consideration. The learning program

embraces local, national and global contexts whilst considering the environmental, social and economic impacts of littering.

The Litter Less resource has been developed by KESAB through a partnership approach supported by the Australian Packaging

Covenant, Wrigley’s and Zero Waste SA.

To purchase the complete resource visit

www.enviromethod.edu.au

A free Litter Less microsite with suggested

classroom activities and interactives has been

developed and forms part of the completed

resource available for sale.

www.letsbesustainable.com.au/litterless

Minister for Education and Child

Development Hon Susan Close MP and

City of Port Adelaide Enfield Mayor Gary

Johanson test their litter knowledge during

one of the activities

Page 6 Sustain

Recipients of the Coca-Cola Beverage Container Grants

Recipient Project Funding Amount $

1st Mount Gambier Scout Group 6 frames and bags for container collection 600

Adelaide Eagles Little Athletics Centre Purchase 3x triple bin sets and coloured lids 1289

Barmera Primary School 15 X 3 bin system one for each classroom 1140

Callington A & H Society Inc Purchase 10 recycling bins with rosette lids 1076

Cardijn College Construction of a recycling sorting table 725

City of Holdfast Bay 15 X 240L wheelie bins and cadbri bin toppers 600

City of Mitcham Install 12 bins with surrounds 5000

City of Unley Installation of 8 bins in triple and dual general waste & recycling

stations 5000

Nuriootpa High School Purchase 180 bin labels to reduce contamination (for 30 bins) 500

Edwardstown Primary School Fabricate and install a sorting and washdown table 3335

Glenelg Primary School Purchase 7 C-Thru recycling bins 3069

Golden Grove High School Purchase and install a sorting table 2129

Investigator College - Goolwa Purchase of bins, purpose designed lids. 3000

Investigator College - Victor Harbor Purchase of bins, purpose designed lids. 3000

Kidman Park Primary School Indoor and Outdoor bins. 2500

Kingoonya Progress Association Purchase dual bin system and surrounds 2000

Lake Wangary Preschool Purchase a trailer, 10 bins and signage 3610

Loxton High School Purchase coloured bin lids to provide 5 recycling stations around

the school site 2000

Modbury Vista Junior Soccer Club Purchase 4 purpose designed recycling bins 5000

Penong & Community Progress Association

Inc 2 litter and recycling bins and surrounds 3296

Pinnaroo Primary School Purchase of Trailer and 10 bins 5000

Pt Vincent Tidy Towns Purchase of 20 public place recycling bins 1728

Reynella Kindergarten and Playgroup Fund the Beverage Container Recycling elements of the planned

recycling depot 2500

Rural City of Murray Bridge Install 5 x3 bin systems and surrounds 7500

The Flinders Ranges Council Install 6 recycling bins and surrounds 5000

Thiele Primary School Install 2 x 240l bin stations and surrounds 2500

Two Wells Primary School Purchase of 4 Wheelie Bins and permanent stand 506

Victor Harbor Childcare and Education Centre Purchase a custom built cage trailer 3500

Virginia United Soccer Club Purchase 3 bins and a bottle cage 537

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