The Victorian Litter Action Alliance is the peak body for litter management and prevention in Victoria and aims to provide a coordinated approach to preventing litter in Victoria across state and local government, industry and community sectors. There are thirteen members of the Alliance who each play their own part in the fight against litter. Read more about VLAA members, what does VLAA do? and the annual reports and business plans.
What's new?
CLaP-Ca-BAC July- December 2008 is here!
A Coordinated Litter Prevention Capacity Building Activities Calendar (CLaP-Ca-BAC for short) is now available. This calendar captures the litter prevention activities which are occuring across the VLAA members as well as the Master Builders Association and HIA.
July- December 2008 Calendar (1.3MB)
January-June 2008 Calendar (1.83MB)
July-December 2007 Calendar (1.13MB)
Who's A Tosser?
July 1 2008, marks Victoria's first year anniversary of the ban on indoor smoking at licensed venues as well the first anniversary for Sustainability Victoria's 'Don't Be A Tosser' campaign.
Thanks to the hard work that licensed premises, local government and smokers put into supporting this campaign, butt litter has almost halved since the state-wide bans on indoor smoking at pubs and clubs were introduced last year!
Before the change in legislation butt littering behaviour rates were at 58% and were forecast to increase to 80% if no action was taken. However, thanks to everyone getting behind the Tosser campaign, butt littering fell to just 33% at the peak of the campaign in August 2007.
The Results Are Out!
A big thank you to those of you who were involved in the VLAA Litter Prevention, Litter Enforcement and Capacity Building Survey 2006-08. This was the first survey to include a separate section on enforcement and the results are now available online and in hard copy through contacting the Litter Champion.
Some highlights include:
- A substantial increase in people using the VLAA Litter Prevention Kits- 85%
- A large increase in the awareness of VLAA- 97%
- A significant increase in the attendance of VLAA events and workshops
- The most commonly accessed VLAA resources were VLAA website, Cigarette Butt Litter Prevention Kit, LitterALLY newsletter, 'Don't Be A Tosser' workshops, artwork and slogans, Illegal Dumping workshops and advice.
Contact the Litter Champion for your copy.
EPA's Litter Enforcement Toolkit Available Now!
The long awaited toolkit is now accessable on the EPA website. This comprehensive toolkit provides sound advice on the application of the EP Act as well as a series of easy to use templates.
Access the Litter Enforcement Toolkit through this link
Ever Wondered How To Get Your Organisation Involved? Being A Litter Leader!
An information card jam-packed with top ideas to get your organisation walking the talk is now available.
To get your hands on a super and convenient wallet-sized card, contact the Litter Champion! This information always available online. Click here to access.
'Do the Right Thing' Statewide Resources
In last year's VLAA Litter Prevention and Capacity Building Survey people surveyed asked for more education and advertising materials. So...
The Packaging Stewardship Forum and the Litter Champion have teamed up to provide you with free advertising and educational tools to tackle and prevent litter. Click here to find out more...
The Latest Litter ALLY is now available!
Click here to access the exciting and info-packed Litter ALLY Newsletter.
The 'Tosser' Campaign Gets Great Results!
Through the combined efforts of government, industry and smokers one of the most successful butt littering campaigns ever was carried out with significant behaviour change results.
Two reports are available of the 'Don't Be A Tosser- Bin Your Butts' butt litter campaign carried out by Sustainability Victoria during 2007, a summary and a full evaluation. These are essential reads for anyone wishing to tackle butt litter!
Don't Be A Tosser Campaign Summary (730KB)
Don't Be A Tosser Campaign Evaluation (4.59MB)
Cigarette Butt Litter Survey 2007
As you are aware, the changes to the tobacco legislation banning all smoking within licensed premises commenced on 1 July 2007. There is a strong need to establish baseline and change data on these changes.
Recently, a letter was distributed to all councils from the Municiple Association of Victoria (MAV), Sustainability Victoria and VLAA encouraging your council to conduct a measurement of butt litter outside selected venues, prior to the bans (week of 25 June), after the bans have commenced (week of 2 July) and again in September (week of 16th) to measure any ongoing impact.
Click on this link to access the reults of the survey. (171KB)
Don't Be A Tosser
Click here to access the fantastic 'Don't Be A Tosser' materials developed for the statewide campaign to tackle butt litter. These resources can be used throughout your region or council to promote butt litter prevention with the 'Bin Your Butt' call to action.
The 2004-2006 VLAA Litter Preventention and Capacity Building Survey
The VLAA survey has just been published and is now available online. If you would like to receive a hard copy of this survey please email the Litter Champion on litterchampion@litter.vic.gov.au
