Why introduce public place recycling into Shopping Centres?
With more than 1,300 shopping centres in Australia, attracting more than 1.75 billion shopper visits per year, there is plenty of opportunity to have a significant impact on people's behaviour, to recycle more materials and make a real difference to the planet.
Introducing public recycling at your shopping centre offers benefits to your patrons, to the profile of your shopping centre and to the planet.
Your patrons are already recycling at home and are ready to recycle in public places, if it is made easy.
About the new guidelines
The Guidelines for public recycling in shopping centres provide for consistent messages and methods to establish and maintain effective recycling systems in public areas in enclosed retail centres across Australia.
The guidelines have been developed following trials with shopping centres in Queensland, NSW and Victoria building on the successful introduction of back of house recycling systems and increasing commitment to sustainability by many retail centre owners, managers and the community.
The guidelines have been developed by the Packaging Stewardship Forum in partnership with the Queensland Department for Environment and Resource Management, Sustainability Victoria and the National Packaging Covenant.
To obtain a hard copy of the guidelines and for further information on how the Department of Environment and Resource Management and the Packaging Stewardship Forum may be able to assist centre managers further please email publicplace.recycling@epa.qld.gov.au
Last updated: 08 May 2009