A Waste Education Strategy was identified as a priority under the Midwaste Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy 2009-12. This Strategy has now been completed and is available here. 

The overall aim is to provide tools to enable the delivery of appropriate, effective and sustainable projects that will encourage behavioural and attitudinal change in relation to consumption and waste.

Projects delivered under this Strategy will:

• Use the Waste Hierarchy when developing educational/infrastructure/regulatory solutions to waste issues;
• Contribute to the delivery of outcomes of the Regional Waste Strategy;
• Contribute to the achievement of the WARR Strategy targets for 2014;
• Encourage the development of partnerships wherever practicable;
• Provide consistency and efficiency across LGAs as far as possible;
• Ensure consistency with relevant state programs;
• Consider sustainability outcomes as well as resource recovery outcomes; and
• Better integrate engagement and behaviour –change strategies into all waste projects funded by Midwaste.

This Trial was conducted during 2009. The strategic objective of the project was to test a range of strategies for waste management in caravan parks so that the most effective of these could be employed across the region into the future. Read the Report here.

Midwaste develop a Regional Strategy every three years to inform their direction and projects over the course of the funding period. Read the 2009-2012 Regional Strategy here.