Annual Report 2010-11 - Zero Waste SA - SA.Gov.au

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The Zero Waste SA Centre will continue to develop
research proposals to attract national research and
development funding
The Zero Waste SA Centre will continue to develop research
proposals to attract national research and development
funding in areas such as children’s personal consumption
choices, deconstructing and reconsidering sustainable
building design, resource consumption synergies,
sustainable product service systems, and the measurement,
understanding and reduction of food waste.
Zero Waste SA Pam Keating Memorial Scholarship
UniSA has established the Zero Waste SA Pam Keating
Memorial Scholarship for honours students in memory
of the late Pam Keating, a noted environmentalist,
waste management expert and former Zero Waste SA
Board member. Ms Keating passionately believed in
the importance of reducing waste and its impact on
our environment, and was committed to education
and training for sustainability. The scholarship provides
funding of $10,000 to a full-time honours student to
research an area of interest to the Zero Waste SA Centre.
In 2010–11, Mr Bill Page, the inaugural scholarship
student, completed his research project: Social Marketing
in Schools: Development, implementation and evaluation,
which focused on social marketing programs aimed at
children. Mr Page’s research also has links to Zero Waste
SA’s Wipe Out Waste program which helps to educate
children to understand and adopt sustainable behaviours.
In June 2011, Ms Kerrie Bell was selected as the
second scholarship student under this program for the
research project: Design of Behavioural Interventions
for Maximising Visitor Compliance with a Food Waste
Separation Scheme in a Caravan Park. Ms Bell’s project
will design a food separation and collection system in
Adelaide Shores caravan park to help divert food waste to
composting. Adelaide Shores is also participating in Zero
Waste SA’s REAP.