Use this webform to submit your application to be a Waste Smart Kindy.
Before starting your application, make sure you have read and comply with the following eligibility criteria:
- A minimum of 75% of staff at the early learning centre have completed the online professional development course within the last three years.
- The induction process for new staff has been updated to include training in waste smart practises.
- Materials provided in the Waste Smart Kindy toolkit are displayed at the centre, such as poster and bin stickers.
- Evidence of communicating the waste smart message with the wider early learning centre community (for example distribution of fact sheets to families, sharing waste smart activities via social media and newsletters).
- The centre has developed and implemented an action plan based on individual action plans from the online professional development course.
- Evidence that regular waste audits are being conducted to review waste practices and that opportunities are being identified to progressively reduce waste at the centre (every three months).
- Able to demonstrate new initiatives or efforts are being implemented to become more waste smart.
This application will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.
All questions on this application are mandatory unless otherwise advised.
Information collected in this application will be handled in accordance with Council's privacy policy.