Lake Macquarie, NSW funds community-led resiliency projects through its Innovator Support Program

Lake Macquarie, NSW Local Innovator Support Program

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Lake Macquarie created the Innovators Support Program as part of a long-term roadmap to improve the environment and resident wellbeing. The program's first round of projects received $14,470 AUD in council funds. Local residents are leading initiatives to convert fishing line into public benches and recycled plastic into 3D printing materials. The council also funded a pop-up art gallery operated by a local artist that will stop at senior care centers.

Recycling Smart City Strategic Planning Resiliency

Lake Macquarie, NSW

City in New South Wales

Australia

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Lake Mac innovation: casting fishing waste to furniture - Lake Macquarie City Council

An initiative to recycle fishing line waste and turn it into street furniture is one of the projects that has been supported as part of Council’s Innovator Support Program.

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