How to Use This Kit

This kit is designed to help you develop an effective illegal dumping program for your local area. With these easy to use materials you will be able to develop a program to tackle your specific problem and you will be able to keep illegal dumping top of mind for your organisation and your community. Key aims of your program include:

Raising awareness that illegal dumping is illegal and offenders will be prosecuted
Raising awareness of the impacts of illegal dumping.
Educate the community about common illegal dumping behaviours and appropriate disposal solutions i.e. how easy it is to do the right thing.
Prompting community and individual action to decrease illegal dumping through disapproving/shaming and reporting offenders.
Recruiting champions to build the groundswell of support and action.
Effectively spreading your illegal dumping messages to the wider community using a range of communications vehicles.

Essentially the kit is a one-stop-shop to help you plan, deliver and evaluate your illegal dumping program.

You'll find information on research into the types of dumping and what motivates people to dump, community attitudes towards fining, how to put your education program together, how to use the Environment Protection Act 1970 to investigate and prosecute illegal dumping incidents, and how to put your communications program together.

We have also included case studies which bring these programs to life as well as a variety of resources including suppliers of materials and training courses.

There are certainly plenty of ideas to keep you going!