NetWaste is hosting a Speaking 4 the Planet competition for the primary and high schools in the west and north-west of NSW.

NetWaste is a voluntary regional waste group formed in 1995 to provide collaborative approaches to waste and resource management. Covering almost 40% of the state, NetWaste delivers benefits to these 26 member councils in regional NSW: Bathurst, Blayney, Blue Mountains, Bogan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Broken Hill, Cabonne, Central Darling, Cobar, Coonamble, Cowra, Dubbo Regional, Forbes, Gilgandra, Lachlan, Lithgow, Midwestern, Narromine, Oberon, Orange, Parkes, Walgett, Warren, Warrumbungle & Weddin.

The topic for the competition is Resource Recovery Discovery: Tell the Story of Stuff in 2050. It invites students to look ahead and imagine how well we are managing waste in the future…and how we got there!

The 2021 competition is open to students in Stages 3 and 4. It has seven categories:

• Public speaking 
• Drama  
• Artworks 
• Waste to Art sculpture 
• Writing 
• Qikvids
• Memes  

A resource package has been sent to all the schools in the NetWaste region.