Sustainable Living Tasmania and Lenah Game Meats of Tasmania are the 2024 EPA Sustainability Award winners.
Winners of the Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards were announced on Friday 18 October 2024 at the Awards Gala Dinner, where over 300 guests gathered from across the State to celebrate Tasmania's high achievers.
Presented by Chair of the EPA Board, Andrew Paul, Sustainable Living Tasmania took out the EPA Sustainability Award (Community) for its Energised Learning project which embeds renewable energy into the STEM curriculum across Tasmanian secondary schools. Students are engaged in real-world, practical, and hands-on sustainability challenges, including designing solar hot water systems, converting bikes to electric power, and creating a mobile renewable power station.
The projects have significantly improved energy efficiency, reduced carbon footprints, and fostered a culture of environmental responsibility amongst some of our youngest minds.
Lenah Game Meats of Tasmania took the top prize from a field of strong contenders in the EPA Sustainability Award (Industry) category with its production of high-value food and fibre products from animals that would otherwise be culled and wasted. Wallaby, Lenah's signature product, is a high-quality meat containing low levels of embedded carbon, and harvesting offers a new model for Tasmanian agriculture, enabling landowners to produce high quality, low embedded carbon protein.
Consumption of Lenah's wallaby meat has abated over 92,000,000kg of carbon emissions over 31 years of operation. The business prioritises zero waste, with creative uses for skins, bones, and other by-products.
Each category winner received a trophy and a 12-month subscription with The Career College and will feature on a TV ad celebrating their achievements.
The EPA's naming rights sponsorship of the Sustainability Award category is in its eleventh year and is designed to recognise practical efforts being made by businesses from any industry or community sector who have developed and implemented initiatives that have delivered measurable improvements in preventing pollution, conserving energy and water, minimising waste, and or maximising resource efficiency.
Congratulations to this year's winners, and bravo to all the finalists and nominees. We look forward to 2025's Awards program!
Winner Sustainable Living Tasmania (left) and Chair of the EPA Board, Andrew Paul (right) Photo: Awards Australia
| Winner Lenah Game Meats (left & right) and Chair of EPA Board, Andrew Paul (centre). Photo: Awards Australia
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Published on:
22/10/2024