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Address

214 Grange Road, Flinders Park, SA, 5025, Australia

Telephone

08 8234 7255

Fax

08 8234 7266

E-mail

Website

http://www.kesab.asn.au

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Mission Statement

"To inspire the South Australian Community to restore, preserve and improve the total environment through active participation in dynamic programs."

Objectives

The objectives of KESAB are to:

1) Implement programs that preserve, improve and restore the entire South Australian environment.
2) Provide information, support and resources to the South Australian community, encouraging best environmental practices.
3) Research and implement strategies to transform community behaviour in the environment.
4) Undertake research and monitor community impacts on the environment.
5) Recommend and influence legislation and regulations that improve and protect the environment.

Assist, co-operate and liaise with other organisations to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.



KESAB programs

Clean Site

Industry
KESAB's Clean Site program provides ways to improve onsite building industry management approaches, focusing on best practice.

DIY/Home Renovator
KESAB 's Clean Site program provides tips to help your next home handyman project keep our rivers, creeks and beaches pollution free.

Tidy Towns

A fully integrated rural environmental program with a strong focus on sustainable practices and action- based outcomes in rural South Australia. The Tidy Towns program embraces culture and heritage linked to community action resulting in ongoing improvement at the local level.

Road Watch

Road Watch is a litter and environmental program suitable for any group or individual.

Similar in operation to the successful 'Adopt-a-Highway' program, a section of road is 'adopted' and important environmental activities such as litter clean ups and roadside vegetation work are then carried out.

There is no cost to groups involved in the program and they are free to choose their own time in which to carry out their environmental work.

Through the program, each group can have recognition signs erected on their 'adopted' section of road, highlighting their involvement and helping to give them an important public profile in their local area.

Waterwatch

South Australia 's leading community catchment education program working with schools and communities. Elements of Waterwatch include water quality monitoring, Gutter Guardians, teacher training, Living Waterways and Taking Action.

Litter, Waste and Recycling

A comprehensive education package, delivered to schools and communities, encouraging less litter, recycling and resource recovery while supporting the principles of the waste hierarchy and change through personal action and implementation of best practice.

Clean Up Australia Day

KESAB coordinates the annual Clean Up Australia Day in March every year. For more information contact KESAB or visit www.cleanup.com.au

Further details on the KESAB CLEAN SITE program:

KESAB ’s CLEAN SITE building industry environmental education program focuses on delivering innovative approaches, encouraging best environmental practice during the building and construction process.

CLEAN SITE’s educational component, implemented in partnership with the Environment Protection Authority (EPA), Zero Waste SA, Catchment Boards, industry groups, trade suppliers and relevant stakeholders, aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourages the building industry to change attitudes and behaviour toward the environment.

It educates the industry about improving work practices on typical building and construction sites relating to:

1) litter and waste management;
2) resource recovery and recycling, and
3) controlling sediment and erosion to prevent stormwater pollution of local waterways, including rivers, creeks and beaches.

The program provides positive actions to reduce the building industry’s impact on the environment for a sustainable future.