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We’re thrilled to bring you the 2021 Territory Tidy Towns Sustainable Communities Awards Presentation, presented by Mr Heimo Schober, CEO of Keep Australia Beautiful (NT). Media Release Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Apurte) wins 2021 Northern Territory Sustainable Community Tidy Town Award The proud MacDonnell Regional Council township of Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Apurte) has won the 2021

Warruwi is a town located in the Arnhem Land region of the NT. Students at Warruwi School have been extremely busy! Click on the images below to read their weekly newsletter with an update including weekly clean up of the community. Well done – we appreciate your effort in keeping the NT clean and tidy!

The Litter Legends Campaign is an exciting global schools project to implement a project to reduce litter and improve recycling in their school and community with Eco-Schools in the driver’s seat. Eco-Schools that join this project will follow the Eco-Schools 7-step framework to carry out their campaign on litter, including monitoring litter, raising awareness of

Costa and Dirt Girl visited Santa Teresa to help plant the community garden.  The trees are all citrus fruit trees – orange, mandarin and lemon – and the garden has been planted in the middle for the community use.  Irrigation has been put in place to keep the trees watered and growing.  This was funded

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE “KEEP OUR WATERWAYS BEAUTIFUL” COMPETITION Keep Australia Beautiful Week 2018 will take place from Monday, 20 August to Sunday, 26 August, and will focus on marine litter. Keep Australia Beautiful Week is held late August each year, to raise awareness about the simple things we can all do in

POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 Due to COVID-19 we’re unable to run the competition in 2020.  But keep your gardens ready and make a plan for 2021.  Nothing like another 12 months to get your garden in tip-top shape! 2020 – Postponed   2019 Senior’s Beautiful Garden Competition Celebrating Senior’s dirty hobbies as NT Senior’s Month starts

We will be running a number of Eco School sessions in the upcoming months in NT. The sessions are free and are aimed at helping teachers explore the resources available for Eco Schools. Any teacher, senior teachers and those interested in school sustainability project can join. Please register your interest by sending an email to ceo@kabcnt.org.au

There has been a lot happening in Finke  – and not just the Finke Desert Race 2018! Here are just some of the updates: A dedicated waste area was set up for the race camp for Finke’s long weekend.  Thank you to all the visitors and the campers who did really well by putting the rubbish

Did you see Parap Primary School featured on Nine News!?  Watch the short video to see what they’re up to from boomerang bags to eco gardens. It’s all part of their Eco-School activities.  Watch the video to see more.      

Historical Finke looks to tourism for future. “The Finke people feel the same way about alcohol as they do about heroin,” a Council worker tells me. “That’s how much they dislike it.” Finke is a small town of around 160 people, the majority of them Aboriginals and the rest whites who work there in some