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ACTSmart Sustainability Award Winner

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Congratulations to all our families, children, scouts, teachers, coordinators, committee and scout leaders:  We won!

Spielwelt and our Pfadfinder scout group were the proud recipients of the ACT Smart Sustainability Award’s Energy and Water Star award for 2018.   The award was presented by the very supportive ACTSmart team and the ACT Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Shane Rattenbury.

Just being nominated for the award actually spurred us into more action, and we have since introduced Redcycle’s soft plastics recycling at the hall, and are about to launch two other recycling programs working with Terracycle.   We’ve also signed up to be an ACTSmart organisation and will be ramping up our children’s recycling education program and looking at achieving a further reduction in our waste-to-landfill.  Details to come…

We next aim is to inspire you further!  If your home or business is looking for tips or support about what you can do, start with the ACT Smart website and contact their encouraging and enthusiastic team.

Recipients in other categories of the award are also listed on ACTSmart’s awards page.

You can read about some of the many, many things we have been already done to reduce our footprint and educate our children and families, and what we won the award for, in one of our previous posts…

Gruen, Gruen, Gruen…

Congratulations to all our families, children, scouts, teachers, coordinators, committee and scout leaders:  We won! Spielwelt and our Pfadfinder scout group were the proud recipients of the ACT Smart Sustainability Award’s Energy and Water Star award for 2018.   The award was presented by the very supportive ACTSmart team and the ACT Minister for Climate Change…

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