Inner West Council is undertaking a community organisation survey to understand community attitudes towards littering in the Inner West local government area.
 
This project is focused on material up to the size of a shopping bag that is discarded into your local environment. This includes cigarette butts, cans, plastic items, food containers etc. Unless these are removed from the environment they will end up in our local waterways and damage local wildlife and the aquatic environment.
 
Council is conducting this survey to inform a business case for increasing funding to this area of Council activity so that, amongst other things, it can provide material, Council officer time and financial support to community groups that partner with Council to undertake litter reducing activities.
 
Council would like to ask you a few questions that reflect on the level of activity you do or are willing to take to help tackle this problem.
 
Please feel free to contact Emily Moore on 02 93925291 or emily.moore@innerwest.nsw.gov.au if you have any questions about the purpose of this survey.

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* Organisation

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* Organisation's address

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* Your name

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* Your position

What do you feel are the main litter problems in your area?

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* Littered items (e.g. the kinds of items you see regularly littering your local area):

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* Littered places – locations you have noticed consistently littered (e.g. car parks, sports grounds, train stations, roadsides):

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* Littering behaviors and habits that you have noticed in your local area (e.g. people eating takeaway food in a local park and leaving their containers on site):

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* Community impact (i.e. social cost, reputation impact):

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* Environmental impact (i.e. land, water, fauna):

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* Economic impact (i.e. destination reputation and loss of visitors/tourists):

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* What litter prevention activities do you believe will work to prevent littering in the Inner West?

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* Does your organisation undertake such activities?

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* If yes, what are the estimated or actual (please specify below) operational costs to your organisation of undertaking these activities each year, and how much time is involved each month in undertaking these activities?

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* Clean up and collection – picking up litter from the ground, stormwater (i.e. not in bins):

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* Clean up and collection – public place litter removal:

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* Education and engagement – projects that educate and create an interest in litter prevention activities:

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* Strategy and planning – developing plans of action to influence litter prevention:

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* Enforcement of litter rules and guidelines your organisation may have:

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* Administration – costs related to administering litter prevention activities:

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* Disposal or processing of litter material:

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* Infrastructure or equipment – e.g. cost of bins or other litter prevention equipment and signage:

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* Does your organisation encourage its members and the local community to manage their personal waste and not litter?

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* How interested is your organisation to undertake any other litter prevention activities with the support (specifically material, Council officer time and financial support) of Inner West Council in the future?

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* If you are interested in becoming a future partner, roughly how much time (per week) do you envisage your organisation being able to undertake litter prevention activities with the support of Inner West Council?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.

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