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• Wollondilly playground upgrades to become a reality through latest round of bushfire funding

  Wollondilly Council has welcomed the commitment of $920,120 in bushfire recovery funding to construct shade shelters at seven facilities across the Shire and to upgrade the playground at Picton Botanic Gardens as an inclusive play space.
  
  The upgrades will be delivered through Stage Two of the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund co-funded by the Australian and NSW Governments.
  
  Mayor Robert Khan said that the addition of shade shelters in Warragamba, Tahmoor, Bargo, Oakdale, Thirlmere, Buxton…

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• Composting

  About CompostingComposting is nature’s way of recycling. Millions of compost critters live and feed on compost, breaking down the organic waste to return valuable nutrients back to the soil.
  
  Why should you compost?
  Over 50% of waste generated at home is organic matter which can be recycled.
  Composting is a cheap and easy way to reduce organic waste at home.
  Compost returns vital nutrients back to the soil.
  Composting is 100% natural and does not require any expensive artificial fertilisers.
  How…

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• Join the Green Team

  Join or create a work team focused on dreaming up and implementing schemes to reduce the impact your workplace has on the environment.
  
   
  
  About "Green Teams"The understanding that workplaces have an important role to play in moving us towards sustainability is relatively new.
  
  Accordingly, many businesses and organisations remain unsure of how to put this into practice. Creating or joining committees, ideas groups, and Green Teams to focus on and implement pro-environmental change at…

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• Make Your Profession Sustainable

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor! How can we reduce the environmental impact of our own profession?
  
   
  
  About Making Your Profession SustainableThe change required to create a sustainable society and heal the damage caused by global warming and the overuse of natural services will involve an evolution of almost all aspects of society. The future will include carbon trading, zero emissions targets, full cradle-to-cradle product lifecycle analysis, small business environmental management requiremen…

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• Save Paper and Forests

  The production of paper uses trees, chemicals, energy (greenhouse gases) and water. About one-third of the garbage we throw away is paper. Let's avoid, reduce, re-use and recycle at work too!
  
   
  
  About Saving Paper and ForestsThe ecological footprint of a single newspaper was once described as taking up the area covered by all the sheets of the newspaper laid side by side, for the period of a year.
  
  A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, ov…

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• Buy Green Office Products

  Organisations have significant buying power. Swinging that power around to make the best use of our limited resources is easier than ever.
  
   
  
  About Green Office SuppliesOur workplaces provide great opportunities to make a real impact through our purchasing choices. Imagine the difference it would make if all organisations purchased renewable energy, used 100 per cent post-consumer recycled paper and recycled or refilled their thousands of printer cartridges.
  
  Often the shift required is minimal…

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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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• Recycle Office Waste

  Corporate social responsibility starts with people doing the right things at work. Ensuring our waste is recycled is a good step in this direction.
  
   
  
  About Recycling Office WasteSophisticated products assist us with our daily work, from printer cartridges and toners through to the specialist components used to manufacture and process our products and foods. To get these products we have concentrated, extracted and combined raw natural elements into new and unique elements such as plastics, alu…

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• Power Down

  Energy conservation at work saves resources, slows climate change and leaves the boss with more money for your bonus!
  
   
  
  About Cutting Down EnergyThe cost of energy is rising and the effects of pollution increasing.
  
  Many people waste energy at work in ways they would never consider doing at home. People leave their computers on overnight, leave rooms with the lights on, don't adjust the setting on their equipment to save power and as a consequence, tonnes of greenhouse gases are emitted.…

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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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• Entries Open for the 2021 Waste to Art Competition

  Wollondilly Shire Council’s annual Illuminate ‘Waste to Art’ Exhibition and Competition, run in partnership with Southern Tablelands Arts, is once again challenging the way we look at waste.
  
  The exhibition and competition give emerging and professional artists the chance to explore and share their waste reduction messages whilst showcasing their artistic abilities - with the chance to win up to $1000 in prize money.
  
  Mayor Robert Khan said, “The Waste to Art Exhibition and Competition aims to c…

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• Bushfire Funding brings more Love for the Dilly

  Wollondilly’s successful ‘Love the Dilly’ campaign will be extended to promote the Shire as a visitor destination and support economic recovery, thanks to funding from the State and Federal Governments’ Bushfire Local Recovery Fund.
  
  The Love the Dilly Bushfire Recovery Campaign will receive $600,000 for a range of activities aimed at increasing awareness  of Wollondilly and growing visitor numbers, including leveraging Destination NSW’s “Love NSW” program.
  
  Wollondilly has extraordinary natural…

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• Silverdale Road upgrades to commence in September

  Wollondilly Shire Council has welcomed $5 million worth of funding through the Western Sydney Infrastructure Program, which will be used to begin construction on the Silverdale Road Upgrade.
  
  This project will begin in the Silverdale township in early September 2021, with major improvements planned between Warradale Road and the Silverdale shopping centre.
  
  Work will include resurfacing the road, widening road shoulders to allow road side parking, kerb & gutter works, drainage, a new footpat…

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• Construction of Mt Hercules Culvert Renewal

  Request for Tender 2021/17This project is to replace a single lane watercourse crossing culvert on Mount Hercules Road, Razorback with a dual carriageway culvert. The alignment of the replacement culvert is not anticipated to differ from the existing culvert. Replacement of the single lane culvert road crossing will realise significant road safety improvements for users of Mount Hercules Road by proving unrestricted dual carriageway access across the culvert.
  The subject site is located northeas…

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• Wollondilly Garden Competition set to bloom this Spring

  During the extended Covid-19 lockdown, the green thumbs of Wollondilly have had plenty of time to potter in their gardens in preparation for the 2021 Wollondilly Spring Garden Competition.
  
  The annual Garden Competition is a popular event on Council’s calendar, bringing together like-minded community members with a passion for gardening.
  
  Mayor Robert Khan said, “Wollondilly Council has a long and proud history of conducting the Spring Garden Competition, which was established in 1997.”
  
  “We are…

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