Sustainability Resources
Ensuring what we do today, creates a better tomorrow.
Sustainable Steps Guide
The Sustainable Steps Guide is a resource created by the Marine Mammal Foundation’s Marine Champions, demonstrating how to make a difference in your community. This guide has been designed to provide you with campaigns, ideas, and handy hints for you to improve sustainability or further conservation action within your school or local area.
All of the initiatives in this guide were ideas of Marine Champions, sparked by recognising these issues as common sustainability threats that can be improved. By following our step-by-step guide, you can become a leader for change by establishing one or more of these programs in your school or local community.
Our Marine Champions leaders are always willing to lend a hand in helping you achieve your sustainability goals! Feel free to reach out to them at any time.
how-to’s covered in the Guide:
Encouraging sustainable School Canteens
School canteens are usually one of the biggest sources of plastic pollution in a school, but many plastic items can be replaced with other sustainable, biodegradable or reusable products. Help make your school canteen more sustainable!
Creating an environment group or committee
Change is easier when we work together. Gather like-minded and dedicated students to lead sustainable actions in your school!
Better Bins
Having the right bins in your classroom is a great way to reduce waste at school. Having different bins for rubbish, recycling, and soft plastic helps reduce classroom waste and promotes correct litter disposal!
Organising a clean-up
Clean-ups are a great way to get many people involved while making a difference in the environment. Whether it is the school-yard, beach, or a local park, every little bit counts!
and so much more!
Household Waste Audit
Litter and waste is a significant threat to marine environments worldwide, with an estimated 4 - 12 million metric tons of plastic entering our oceans annually.
Fortunately, much of this waste is avoidable! The proper disposal of household waste can make a big difference. Simple strategies in waste disposal can reduce our footprint, and ensure we are all minimising the amount of waste ending up in landfill unnecessarily.
A household waste audit is a great way to learn about the waste you are creating and minimise avoidable waste!
Discover how to make your home more sustainable:
Identifying your waste is the first step!
Correct waste disposal is important for minimising the amount of waste ending up in land-fill, and maximising recycling and compost. This step-by-step guide will help you identify your waste, and how you can eliminate it!
Re-Think what we are using
A lot of household waste can be easily eliminated by using non-plastic alternatives. Can you make changes in your daily routine to minimise your waste and unnecessary plastic use?
Marine Mammals
Fun Facts and Activities Booklet
The Marine Mammals Fun Facts and Activities Booklet is designed for the next generation of marine scientists, conservationists, and change-makers to learn about our local Victorian marine environments, our amazing marine life, and what we can all do to make a positive difference! Through this booklet, you will learn about Victoria’s marine mammals, including the critically endangered Burrunan dolphin, and the impact of litter and marine debris, and be guided on how to reduce plastic use and lead your own sustainability initiatives.
Discover Victoria’s incredible marine mammals:
Fun Facts to learn about out local environment!
Discover the wonders of Victoria’s marine environments, and get to know the marine mammals who call it home.
Games and Activities
Become a marine mammal researcher, and learn how MMF identfies individual Burrunan dolphins through unique nicks and notches. Listen to Burrunan Dolphin echolocation, and test your skills in crosswords, word searches and other activities!
Make a Difference
Utilising MMF sustainability resources, learn how we can all make a positive difference in the conservation and protection of our local marine environments.
Marine Champions
Marine Champions is designed for young people to share their passion for marine mammals, conservation and the environment, Marine Champions is an extension program that will provide hands-on action opportunities and learning experiences for young people to gain a stronger understanding of marine science and sustainability.
Under the guidance of Marine Champions Leaders, participants will be given the opportunity to work with the MMF core team, meet other like-minded young people, and participate in a variety of unique activities and guided MMF expeditions. Marine Champions will be provided with the tools and support to create, develop and share their own projects with each other and their community, interacting directly with our marine mammal research and gaining leadership skills to make a difference within the environment.
It’s simple to become a Marine Champion, fill in our expression of interest and one of our Marine Champions Leaders will be in touch!
Marine Champions is a membership-based program, run predominately during the school holidays, across Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes.
