Closing the Loop on Waste Community Engagement, Cultural Diversity, and Shared Responsibilities in Waste Management in Canterbury-Bankstown CLOSING the LOOP on WASTE
Institute for Culture and Society Closing the Loop on Waste Community Engagement, Cultural Diversity, and Shared Responsibilities in Waste Management in Canterbury-Bankstown CLOSING THE LOOP ON WASTE First published, 2019 Creative Licence copyright © Authors: Paul James, Abby Mellick Lopes, Sebastián Martín-Valdéz, Shuman Partoredjo, Juan Francisco Salazar, Flora Zhong Published by the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia A report commissioned by the City of Canterbury Bankstown Image: A shopping trolley dumped near new high-rise apartments, Canterbury, 2019 Image: Abby Mellick Lopes Cover image: Public compost bins, Cooks River, Canterbury, 2019 Image: Abby Mellick Lopes 2 Western Sydney University CLOSING THE LOOP ON WASTE Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 ≥ Overview ≥ Insights RECOMMENDATIONS 6 INTRODUCTION 8 CHAPTER 1 PRACTICES OF WASTE 12 ≥ Recycling ≥ Dumping ≥ Littering ≥ Composting ≥ Re-use CHAPTER 2 MAKING WASTE PUBLIC: 20 SHARED RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH ONGOING ENGAGEMENT ≥ Working Together ≥ Communications CHAPTER 3 CULTURAL QUESTIONS IN SOCIAL CONTEXT 25 APPENDICES 32 ≥ Anticipating Policy Shifts and the Circular Economy Challenge ≥ Social Change in Canterbury-Bankstown ≥ Engagement Strategies in Culturally Diverse Communities ≥ Online Survey Questionnaire REFERENCES 70 westernsydney.edu.au/ics 3 CLOSING THE LOOP ON WASTE Executive Summary OVERVIEW One of the key challenges facing all councils INSIGHTS is that waste management is considered Canterbury-Bankstown is a complex and primarily to be an individual’s responsibility, The key findings from the literature review, rapidly changing municipal area, facing all the with a bias toward residents of houses, which focus groups, critical issue workshop, and challenges of a suburban region in a world of is still the main dwelling type in Canterbury- online survey are listed below: increasing economic, ecological, political and Bankstown—though as noted this is rapidly cultural fracturing.1 Demographic change, changing.
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