Wollondilly Shire Council

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• Use Plants to Remove Toxins

  Is your living space giving you 'sick building syndrome'? Treat it with a collection of plants that absorb toxic chemicals. They're good for your soul - and good for your health.
  
  In the drive to make our homes energy-efficient we have become better at sealing the indoors from the outdoors to keep temperatures even and lighten the load on the energy systems used to heat and cool our houses. However, this can lead to poor indoor air quality and our health can suffer from the build-…

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• Avoid Excessive Packaging

  Give priority to purchasing unpackaged products and save the earth's precious resources.
  
  The average Australian consumes 90 kilograms of resources in packaging each year. This is almost double the amount of many European nations. Along with this consumption comes the generation of huge amounts of waste - so it's not surprising that Australia is one of the worst waste generators in the developed world. Reducing the amount of packaging we purchase can help to significantly reduce our us…

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• Choose Green Service Providers

  Wading through the ‘green wash’ to find service providers whose pro-environmental behaviour goes deeper than their marketing department can be a challenge.
  
  As services consume a greater portion of our dollars we want to identify and engage businesses that are making efforts to operate sustainably.
  
  How to do it now!
  The following criteria can be useful in informing your decisions, as to the merit or otherwise of a business with regard to their sustainability performance.
  
  They are an efficient…

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• Join a Bushcare / Landcare Group

  Community groups are helping to rehabilitate weed choked native vegetation, enabling it to regenerate and thus, restoring native biodiversity. Find your local group and lend a hand.
  
  Years of neglect have stripped our urban creeks, parks and roadways of vibrant indigenous vegetation. It's time for us to remedy this erosion of our natural heritage. We can bring a diverse range of birds and creatures into our daily lives and would be creating a sustainable living space in step with Australian…

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• Slow and Local Travel

  Holidays are a break from the normal routine, yet you can break your routine at home or in your local area, it just requires a new perspective.
  
  Ask your friends for their favourite local attractions, hidden pleasures, fabulous festivals and cosmic adventures. Map a slow journey along roads, rivers and coasts that you've never travelled and see sights you've never seen. If you throw in the cash you save not flying to the other side of the planet, you can even indulge yourself, guilt fr…

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• Transport

  Most of us still use the car as our primary mode of transport. However, one-quarter of all car journeys are less than three kilometres.
  
  Car travel has a very significant environmental cost and impacts negatively on our health and wellbeing.
  
  To ride a bike the same distance uses less than one-fiftieth of the energy required to drive. 
  
  Explore sustainable transport options.
  
  Reduce and Offset Car Emissions
  A litre of petrol produces about 2.3 kilograms of greenhouse gases and vehicles produce m…

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• How to Reduce Waste

  There are many things you can do around the home, or at work, to minimise the amount of waste you generate and to recover valuable resources through initiatives such as composting and worm farming.
  
   
  
  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  Ways to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
  
  Limit your use of single-use and disposable products and opt for re-usable items
  Keep re-usable bags for your shopping
  When buying fruit and vegetables, put them in your trolley rather than plastic bags
  Donate unwanted clothes, household it…

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• Councillor Attendance and Expense Reports

  Councillor Attendance Reports
  Meeting and Conference Attendance – September 2016 to November 2019
  
  Meeting and Conference Attendance - 2019/2020
  
  Meeting and Conference Attendance - July to December 2020
  
  Meeting and Conference Attendance - January to June 2021
  
  Meeting and Conference Attendance - July to December 2021
  
  Meeting and Conference Attendance - January to June 2022
  
  Councillor Expense Reports
  Fees and Expenses 2018/19 Financial Year
  
  Fees and Expenses - July to December 2019
  
  Fees and…

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• Roads

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• Disclosure of Political Donations and Gifts

  Application to Disclose Political Donations and Gifts
  Complete this form where you are required under section Section 10.4 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to disclose any political donations or gifts.
  
  Any person making a planning application or submission is required to disclose "reportable political donations” [1] and gifts made to any local councillor (or council staff member) within two (2) years of making of the application or submission. Failure to do so constitu…

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• New Sewer and Potable Water Upgrade Works For New Childcare Centre

  Request for Tender 2021/19The Wollondilly Shire Council is developing a Master Plan in the Picton town centre to create a new Community, Cultural and Civic Precinct to provide a vibrant and inviting place to meet dwell which includes improved community facilities such as a multi-purpose Theatre, new Library and Village Green. To achieve this some existing buildings and services need to be relocated including the existing RFS building on the corner of Colden and Menangle St.
  
  This Tender is for t…

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• Netballers welcome opening of new courts at Tahmoor as the 2021 season commences

  New state of the art netball courts were officially opened at the Tahmoor Sporting Complex today by Federal Member for Hume, Hon Angus Taylor MP, together with State Member for Wollondilly, Nathaniel Smith MP and Wollondilly Mayor Robert Khan.
  
  The $2 million courts are part of a major upgrade at the Tahmoor site, which will become a district level sporting complex designed to cater for Wollondilly’s growing population.
  
  The courts have been welcomed by local sporting groups, particularly the Wo…

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• Student’s environmental message is displayed on waste collection truck as new in-house service begins

  A Douglas Park Primary School student has had her artwork featured on a new waste compactor truck as part of Wollondilly Council’s new public bin servicing initiative.
  
  The winner of the art competition for local schools, Sophie (7), was congratulated by Councillors and staff at the launch of the new truck on Thursday.
  
  The theme of the competition was “reducing litter in the environment” and Sophie’s picture featured the important message, “a little change can make a big difference.”
  
  Mayor Rob…

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• Travel Together to Meetings

  Travel to meetings and to work with your co-workers. It's efficient, it saves energy and it slows global warming.
  
   
  
  Reduce Carbon EmissionsThe impact of our carbon emissions is causing increased global warming and our modes of transport (especially the car) contribute significantly to these emissions. By 'car pooling' with your co-workers, you'll immediately halve your emissions in one easy step.
  
  This will also cut business costs and allow you to spend more 'face time…

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• Make Your Business Carbon Neutral

  With environmental concerns taking centre stage, businesses and organisations are realising the benefits of setting their business on a carbon neutral target.
  
   
  
  About Being a Carbon Neutral BusinessFor businesses to stop contributing to climate change they need to become carbon neutral. This is achieved by balancing your business's carbon emissions with an equivalent amount being sequestered or offset. Generally all greenhouse gases (e.g. methane, nitrous oxide, etc.) are included in the…

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