Clean Beach Challenge - 2007
| Entries to be in by: | 17 August 2007 |
| Judging: | September - November 2007 |
| Presentation of Awards: | Swansea, 7th December 2007 |
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Exciting Program!
To be judged in conjunction with the Tidy Towns Program
This is a national program.
Tasmania's top beach will represent the state in the Australian Clean Beach Challenge.
No Entree Fee!
Be in it now!
Almost Everyone!
Individuals, local councils, service clubs, schools, surf life saving clubs, community groups, in fact anyone or any organisation who is proud of their beach.
Will be undertaken in conjunction with tidy towns judging between mid September and mid November, 2007
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KAB judges must take into account every beach's geographic, environmental and economic circumstances, and assess how efficiently and effectively the community uses the resources available to it against a range of criteria, including tidiness and litter abatement, visitor friendliness and hospitality, fauna and flora management activities, community interaction, youth activities, resource conservation and waste management, and local government leadership within a community.
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This criteria recognises outstanding accomplishment in resource conservation and waste management. Judges look for evidence of community, business and/or local council initiatives in the conservation of natural resources, the recovery and reuse of "waste" materials and the appropriate disposal of non-recyclables, including:
- Mulching and reuse of suitable green waste
- Adequate, well placed recycling bins/facilities
- Appropriate directional signage to recycling facilities and/or services
- Collection and re- use/ recycling of glass, paper, cardboard, aluminium, plastic, oil
- Collection and appropriate disposal of non-recyclable materials
- Incorporation of waste management activities into a broader waste management
strategy for the beach
- Water minimisation practices and/or devices (eg automatic shut-off taps on
public toilets and showers)
- Energy minimisation practices and/or devices at public facilities (eg long-life light
globes, solar-heated/powered public facilities or services, automatic light shut-off
switches - where safety is not compromised)
- Community education and/or consultation activities with regard to resource
conservation and waste management at the beach
- Partnerships between council, community and/or business in effective resource
conservation and waste management activities at the beach
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This criteria recognises outstanding accomplishment in litter prevention, management and education. Judges look for evidence of sound and proactive litter management and abatement activities, including:
- Anti-litter education and awareness programs, literature and/or signage by local council, schools, community groups. Surf Life Saving Clubs
- Litter management strategy for the beach
- Adequate, well placed litter bins in beachside commercial areas
- Adequate, well placed litter bins in public parks and playgrounds
- Frequent and adequate collections from litter bins and recycling bins
- Appropriate directional signage to litter bins and recycling bins
- Accessible dog-litter bags and disposal facilities, or dog prohibition on the beach
- Cigarette butt disposal facilities in public parks/rest areas
- Personal cigarette "butt bins" available for/distributed to beach users
- Regular beach clean-up activities by the community and/or local council
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This award recognises the importance of visitor hospitality and safety, and instructive and easily understood local information facilities. Judges look for evidence of a commitment to, and active promotion of, visitor friendliness, including:
- Adequate, well placed directional signage for parking, amenities, information services, tourist attractions, beach access and beach usage
- Well placed and adequate beach and water safety signage
- Life savers/life guards on duty during swimming season
- Multi-lingual signage, and/or universal symbols for non-readers and non-English readers
- Commitment to maintenance and good presentation of signage
- Genuine visitor information centres displaying the new tourism "i" (information) sign
- Appropriate access to and from beachside public facilities for the disabled and elderly
- Appropriate access to and from the beach for the disabled and elderly
- Visitor and tourist facilities, including toilets, picnic areas, barbecues, shaded playgrounds, carparks, information boards/signs
- Stinger nets and stinger treatment (where appropriate)
- Clean and tidy beach
- Tidy, well presented surrounding beach area, including care and maintenance of footpaths, playgrounds and parks
- The existence or development of a tourism strategy for the beach/area
- (Where competent, recognised data is available) ongoing compliance with Australian water quality standards for ocean bathing
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This ctireria recognises outstanding environmental achievement through youth initiative and/or by a beach/community which encourages and promotes youth initiative. Judges look for evidence of strong youth enterprise, action and achievement in community environmental activities in/around the beach, including:
- Youth education programs with a focus on beach/coastal environment and conservation, beach cleanliness and/or beach safety
- Organised environment and conservation activities or projects for youth such as through the SLSC, scouts, guides, sea scouts, fishing clubs, school, church or community groups
- Council, business and/or community encouragement of, and involvement in, youth activities, particularly welfare, health, environment and conservation activities
- Successful outcomes from youth-initiated or youth-led activities
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This criteria recognises outstanding community organisation and pride - expressed through civic, cultural and environmental activities. Judges look for evidence of strong partnerships between the local beach community (including clubs and organised groups), local business and the local council, including:
- Organised beach clean-ups and ongoing litter management activities
- Community involvement in the preparation and maintenance of management plans/strategies for the beach
- Involvement of youth groups, schools and clubs in positive beach community management activities
- Community celebrations associated with the beach
- Cultural heritage celebrations/projects associated with the beach and initiated by the community
- Beachside fauna and flora protection and/or rehabilitation activities initiated by the community
- Community initiated/managed beach and foreshore enhancement such as weed eradication, dune revegetation and habitat improvement
- Community-led resource recovery, reuse and recycling activities at the beach
- Visible/measurable outcomes achieved as a result of community initiative and action
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This criteria Trecognises outstanding partnership achievements by a local government
and its community. Judges look for evidence of a local government which motivates,
educates, involves and guides its community and for evidence of its proactive
influence in and around the beach community, including:
- Beach community forums and/or workshops led by the council
- Innovative waste, energy and/or resource management activities and/or strategies by council
- Effective promotion of council activities and services to the beach community
- Strong two-way communication between council and the beach community
- Sound council management and maintenance of local beachside facilities, eg playgrounds, shower and toilet facilities, carparks, public open spaces
- Council encouragement of, and assistance with, community care and enhancement of the beach
- Protective fencing of sensitive areas by council
- Council maintenance of beach access points
- Dune and foreshore protection, management and enhancement by council
- Community-local government partnerships on issues such as tourism plans, beach/regional development plans, environmental or conservation management plans, public infrastructure development and/or augmentation
- Established community consultation policy and practice by council
- Successful outcomes from community-local government partnerships
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This criteria recognises outstanding accomplishment in the protection of the local
natural environment and, specifically, the preservation of fauna and flora. Judges look for evidence of the community's and/or council's commitment to the protection and sound management of local fauna and flora, including:
- Weed eradication policies and programs
- Partnerships between council and the community which are designed to identify,
rehabilitate and/or protect local fauna and flora
- Development and implementation of vegetation management plans for the beach, dunes and surrounds
- Installation and use of dune protection measures, including stairs and/or wood and chain slats at beach access points (pedestrian and vehicular), visible and appropriate access/no access signage for vehicles and pedestrians, fencing of sensitive dune areas
- Coastcare, Dunecare, Land for Wildlife, Voluntary Conservation Agreements and
other activities/commitments for the protection of local flora and fauna
- Established beach conservation and/or environment group(s)
- Commitment to the maintenance and protection of coastal/dune vegetation
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This criteria recognises coastal communities which are facing or have faced difficult times, but which show outstanding commitment to solving problems by turning them into opportunities. Judges look firstly for evidence of beach community/regional hardship (economic, environmental or elemental) and then for evidence of the community's refusal to "give in", including:
- Development and/or implementation of innovative, community-based strategic or business plans designed to address a hardship
- Partnerships between council, industry and/or community which have been developed to address a hardship
- Successful outcomes from community strategies/initiatives which were designed to address a hardship
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This recognises individuals or groups who have made an outstanding contribution to the State's beaches and who espouse the principles of the Clean Beach Chalienge.
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School Environment Award