Glenorchy received three awards in the Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) National Sustainable Cities Awards.
The Glenorchy City Council won the Young Legends National Award for its Glenorchy Youth Task Force, Benjafield Childcare Centre, Waste Management Schools Program, and Rosetta Primary School.
Council was also highly commended for Environmental Sustainability for its Derwent Stormwater Reuse project and highly commended in the Heritage and Culture category for the Moonah Arts Centre.
Glenorchy was named Tasmania’s sustainable city in the annual KAB Tasmania Awards, where the Council, local community groups and community members received a total of 15 state awards.
KAB’s Nation Sustainable Cities judge Sean Rooney said Glenorchy City Council had demonstrated achievement by supporting a range of sustainability programs, particularly projects for young people.
Mr Rooney said the commitment to sustainability and caring for the environment was embedded at a young age in the children and youth of Glenorchy.
City General Manager Peter Brooks said, “Our Youth Taskforce is doing fantastic work and thoroughly deserves its award, while the Derwent Park Stormwater Harvesting and Industrial Reuse project will save some 476 megalitres of water a year, and the Moonah Arts Centre demonstrates the best in environmentally sustainable design.”
The Glenorchy City Council is strongly focused on partnerships with its community, and on increasing community involvement and opportunity to build a sustainable, dynamic and inclusive city now and into the future.
