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Canterbury Bankstown

The City of Canterbury Bankstown covers 110.3 km² in the south-west of Sydney. A small part of the council area is in the catchment.

At Sefton (about 1.8 km²) in the north-west of the council’s area, stormwater flows into the Duck River and then on to the Parramatta River.

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Part of the Parramatta River catchment.

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Canterbury Bankstown

Community

The City of Canterbury Bankstown’s Estimated Resident Population for 2020 is 380,406, with a population density of 3,449 persons/km². Within the suburb of Sefton the population was estimated at 6511 for 2020.

Sefton is mainly residential with 3563 persons/km2 slightly higher than the overall Council average. (profile.id.com.au/canterbury-bankstown).

Canterbury Bankstown

Litter policy

Council’s Community Strategic Plan, 2028 CB City, identifies that the community want to see less litter, and that clean and litter-free streets is a high priority.

In 2022, Council is drafting the Clean Cities Strategic Plan. Council is also participating in the Cooks River Litter Prevention Strategy.

Council supports the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC) Our Places Recreation and Retail Litter Prevention Plan 2016-2021.

Projects

Council recognises the value of litter prevention in reducing time spent time picking up litter and is working proactively to prevent the act of littering. Programs prioritise community engagement and education, and work with communities to ensure the City of Canterbury Bankstown is clean and litter-free. (cbcity.nsw.gov.au)

Key projects include:

  • 2013-2018 We like Our Park Litter Free encouraged picknickers to pledge to place rubbish in bins and increased bins and hot coal bins with a 90% reduction in litter
  • 2017 Tackling Takeaway Litter in Bankstown was an EPA Litter Program Grant that reduced takeaway wrappers and beverage container litter at carparks around Bankstown
  • 2017 Litter Management in Campsie through Community Based Social Marketing approaches was an EPA Litter Program Grant and established community anti-litter groups to target littered hotspots
  • Council has also installed infrastructure such as litter bin sensor programs, bottle refill stations and is planning further public litter bin upgrades
  • Council has also had a number of place-based litter prevention projects at Greenacre and Campsie retail precincts and supports Clean Streets Lakemba
  • in 2022 Council will implement a Laneways Project for commercial laneways and streets starting with a survey of businesses.

Future projects include:

  • research into the impact of bird feeding in public areas
  • ongoing public litter bin upgrades.

Council’s key learnings from many successful projects include:

  • the importance of good research prior to piloting strategies
  • delivering education and awareness programs at the same time as providing bin infrastructure gives better longer-term positive results
  • bringing different teams together to problem solve bin infrastructure at a site
  • the SSROC Bin Tool is good to use to communicate back to the community on the outcomes of a bin assessment
  • sustainable outcomes are best achieved over time and not just in a single year/event.