It's time to unleash all the creative ways you reduce waste - and make a short film about it.
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Hunter Joint Organisation of Councils has teamed up with the Real Film Festival to create the Cut!Waste Short Film Competition.
There are three categories - waste reduction and avoidance, waste reuse/repair and repurpose, and waste environmental impacts. There are $6000 worth of prizes to be won.
Up to 12 minute films, including titles and credits, will be accepted until Friday, October 4. Late entries will be accepted until October 18.
It's part of a wider regional waste education campaign called It All Comes Back To You, which is the brain child of Hunter Joint Organisation of Councils. It will run over the next two years.
The household waste survey being conducted across the region, which The Mercury reported on earlier this week, is another part of the overall campaign.
The venture aims to highlight some of the ways residents are reducing their waste and inspire others to act.
"In Australia, waste is being generated at ever increasing rates and recovering the maximum amount of materials from these growing waste streams is more important than ever. The ideal is not to create waste in the first place and disposal of waste to landfill is a last resort," Mayor of Maitland, Cr Loretta Baker, said.
"Waste is a hot topic right now, and the Hunter Joint Organisation and its ten member councils are taking a leadership role in influencing the amount of waste that is generated in the first place in the region and taking action to reduce or manage it differently.
"We're planning to work with community on a range of innovative projects to engage with the waste cycle, to address our regional resource recovery strategy for the Hunter and Central Coast and to take steps towards a circular waste; waste can be a valuable resource, not an afterthought."
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