Litter and Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2024 to 2029

Litter and illegal dumping have huge financial, social, and environmental costs. 

To reduce these impacts, we have developed a Litter and Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy.

This has been developed through consultation with community and local organisations.

The Strategy was on exhibition during May 2024. The Strategy was adopted in June 2024.

Aims of the Litter and Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy

Litter and illegal dumping effects our enjoyment of our parks, beaches and towns. It also comes at a cost to ratepayers and has detrimental impacts on wildlife and marine life.

The Litter and Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy aims to reduce the impacts by targeting the most problematic items and issues.

The Strategy outlines how these issues will be managed over the next five years, with a focus on: 

• Education, awareness and engagement 
• Regulation and Enforcement 
• Infrastructure, Services and Clean-up
• Source Control and Circular Economy initiatives
• Monitoring, evaluation and research.

This Strategy builds on the success of Council’s Illegal Dumping and Litter Education and Enforcement Plan 2018 – 2022, which achieved:

• 40% reduction in litter volume
• 30% reduction in illegal dumping incidents.

The Strategy provides a framework for how we implement actions to achieve an additional: 

• 20% reduction in plastic litter items by 2029
• 40% reduction in all littered items by 2029
• 20% reduction in illegal dumping incidents by 2029.

View the Litter and Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2024 to 2029(PDF, 4MB)