Notice of Motion tabled at the Community Focus Committee Meeting of Council on 14 August 2018 which was held at City Hall in Little Malop Street, Geelong.
To request officers to provide a detailed report listing options to implement a waste wise and sustainability initiative aimed at reducing plastic waste from all COGG events, functions, and activities, and events held on Council land.
There is growing community concern about the impact of plastic waste on our environment. Plastics require non-renewable fossil fuels to produce, and take a very long time to degrade. While some plastics can be recycled, Victorians currently recycle only around a quarter of our plastic waste, with the remainder ending up in landfill or as pollutants of our environment. Plastics cause harm to our wildlife and disrupt ecosystems, particularly in our oceans and waterways. The current recycling crisis risks an even higher proportion of our plastic waste ending up in our environment.
Single use plastics – such as drink bottles, plastic bags, packaging, coffee cups, balloons, and straws – are an obvious source of such plastic waste. Their usage can be reduced through education and behaviour change.
Communities are looking to their Councils to provide leadership on this issue, and many Councils around Australia have implemented measures to reduce plastic waste from Council activities and on Council land. Measures to reduce waste from all City of Greater Geelong events, functions, activities, and events held on Council land would be consistent with community expectations, as well as our commitment to ‘zero waste and zero pollution’ as a certified One Planet Council.
Councillor Mansfield moved, Councillor Mason seconded -
That:
Council requests officers to provide a report detailing options, requirements and financial implications of a waste wise and sustainability initiative aimed at reducing plastic waste;
The report is to include options for all Council events, functions, and activities, as well as activities on Council land; and
The report be presented to Council by the 30 November 2018.
Carried.
As there was no further business the meeting closed at 9:31pm on Tuesday, 14 August 2018.
Signed: _________________________________________
Councillor Bruce Harwood (Mayor)
Date of Confirmation: _____________________________
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