Sustainable Environment
Purpose - Working together to achieve sustainability by reducing resource use, protecting our environment, combating climate change and conserving and enhancing biodiversity
Scope – The Sustainable Environment Theme Forum takes a broad view of the activities undertaken by the partners and acts as a forum for sharing good practice and promoting joint working to achieve a sustainable environment.
Something is sustainable if doing it now does not make it more difficult or impossible to do in the future.
Objectives – to raise awareness of sustainability and environmental issues amongst businesses, organisations and consumers.
Membership – Core membership of the Forum comprises named representatives from Aberdeenshire Council, including members of the existing Sustainability Working Group and its co-opted members. Additional co-optees will be invited onto the group as the need arises.
Related Major Strategies
- Aberdeenshire Sustainability Charter
- Aberdeenshire Council Local Transport Strategy
- Aberdeenshire Core Path Plan (when available)
- North East Scotland Local Biodiversity Action Plan
- Aberdeenshire Renewable Energy Strategy
- Integrated Waste Management Strategy
- Aberdeenshire Local Plan
- Cairngorms National Park Authority Local Plan (when available)
Aberdeenshire Countryside Access Strategy
Indicators – are yet to be confirmed by the newly formed forum group - some suggested themes for measurement include:
- Ecological Footprint per person
- Carbon dioxide emissions
- Waste arisings
- Water consumption
- Air quality
- Biodiversity
- Travel
- Volunteering
Fraserburgh – Bin It N Win It – Good Practice Example
As part of a civic pride initiative to tackle the problem of litter in Fraserburgh, kids in “the Broch” have been invited to “Bin It N Win It”.
'Bin It 'n' Win It' is an anti litter initiative successfully piloted by Inverurie Business Association approximately 3 years ago. This example of innovative practice was disseminated to the Fraserburgh Business Association via the Aberdeenshire Towns Together Forum. An integrated partnership approach comprising Fraserburgh Business Association, Grampian Police, Fraserburgh Academy and the Community Warden team has been used to develop the anti litter campaign.
Randomly chosen children who are seen by the Community Wardens and the local Community Beat Officer discarding their litter in the appropriate manner will be rewarded by winning a voucher to spend in local shops. In order to raise the profile of the project pupils of Fraserburgh Academy have designed posters, which were distributed throughout the town centre to coincide with the launch of the project in August 2005.
