Keeping Queensland Clean; the Litter and Illegal Dumping Plan
The Queensland Government is committed to reducing the amount and impacts of littered and illegally dumped wastes in Queensland. A key deliverable of Queensland’s Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy is the Keeping Queensland Clean: the Litter and Illegal Dumping Plan.
Released in June 2021, this plan:
- sets the context for managing litter and illegal dumping in Queensland
- identifies the issues which need to be addressed
- provides a way forward via a series of actions.
The goal is to reduce littered and illegally dumped waste in Queensland through coordinated, evidence-based actions and collaboration.
The plan identifies how we, as Queenslanders, can work together to combat litter and illegal dumping by:
- building on work already underway
- from the results already achieved
providing a coordinated response to the issues. Many actions have been delivered to address this type of pollution in Queensland, including all the key actions in the plan. These actions include:
- the development of the Litter and Illegal Dumping Management Framework
- delivery of targeted grant programs to support local action
- increasing local council knowledge and capacity to deliver litter and illegal dumping compliance
- the development of the Love Queensland. Let’s keep it clean campaign, which provides a consistent message for use across various platforms.
Based on public feedback, the Litter and Illegal Dumping Online Reporting System has also been updated to make it more user-friendly for the public to report incidents to the department.
