Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts[Section 7]
Objects and functions of the Council
(a) To educate members of the public in, and to
awaken, stimulate, encourage and maintain the interest of members of the
public in, and to promote public knowledge of, the correct disposal of waste
items.
(b) To foster and encourage the appreciation of
clean and well-kept cities and countryside.
(c) To safeguard the character and beauty of the
Australian landscape through the prevention of litter.
(d) To preserve and improve the appearance of our
environment in the schools, in factories, shops and offices, in parks, beaches
and recreation places and along the roadside by the prevention of litter.
(e) To make recommendations and submit proposals
to the Minister from time to time with respect to regulations to be made under
this Act.
(f) To promote litter prevention through publicity
of all kinds, design and distribution of litter receptacles and encouragement
of suitable legislation.
(g) To promote awareness of, and encouragement of,
litter recycling.
(h) To maintain continuous and effective campaigns
against the disfigurement of the landscape by litter and to encourage a
responsible community attitude to cleanliness in all public places.
(i) To study available research, and development
in the field, regarding litter control, removal, disposal and recycling and to
study methods for the implementation of such research and development.
(j) To cooperate, where considered desirable by
the Council with other organizations within the State or elsewhere on
questions relating to all forms of pollution and generally to work for a clean
healthy environment.
(k) To serve as the coordinating agency between
organizations seeking to aid the anti-litter effort.
(l) To liaise with local governments with a view
to ensuring that the provisions of this Act are enforced in the districts
of those local governments.
(m) To cooperate with local governments to
accomplish co-ordination of local anti-litter efforts.
(n) To encourage, organize and coordinate
voluntary local anti-litter campaigns seeking to focus the attention of the
public on programmes to control and remove litter.
(o) To take appropriate measures to bring the
provisions of this Act to the attention of the public.
(p) To do such other acts and things as are
conducive to the prevention and control of litter.
[Second Schedule amended by No. 14 of 1996
s. 4.]