Zero Waste future: teaching tomorrow’s Tasmanian Landcare leaders

Mar 23, 2026

Landcare Tasmania has teamed up with Southern Waste Solutions to deliver an expanded waste education program to primary schools statewide. This three-year partnership builds on a successful 2024 pilot, giving students hands-on learning about waste, recycling, and the impact of rubbish on our environment and native wildlife.

The program combines in-school Waste & Wildlife workshops with Let’s Explore Waste excursions to the Copping Waste Precinct and the Lutana Resource Recovery Centre. By seeing where waste goes after it leaves the kerbside, students gain a powerful understanding of how their choices at home can make a difference.

Landcare Tasmania CEO Peter Stronach said, “This program empowers young Tasmanians to adopt sustainable habits while learning about wildlife conservation, helping to build a zero-waste future.”

Over three years, the program will deliver nine excursions and 18 workshops, starting in Term 1 2026.

Read more about the program and how schools are getting involved: Waste Education Program Expands

Picture above: Nick Gifford, CEO of SWS and Peter Stronach, CEO Landcare at the Southern Waste Solutions Lutana Resource Recovery Centre. Photo credit: Richard Jupe

 

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