Getting Started

Use these points as a checklist to ensure you have fulfilled all requirements of the competition:

Visit the ARC web site www.arc.org.au for more background information, ideas and Conditions of Entry.
Think about the purchasing and lifestyle behaviors of all sections of our community – consumers, retailers, manufacturers and government; what they ‘buy’, how they use it, and how they go about their daily lives.
Integrate the ‘BUY RECYCLED FIRST’ message together with all others you see as being important to motivate your community to ‘Make a Difference’.
Find interesting ways to depict the behaviors we all need to adopt, ‘sing out’ the slogans you want brought to life.
Engage with your community leaders and the media to get even more attention for your messages.
Highlight the products whose packaging is not only recyclable, but is made from recycled waste; identifying those products with ARC and ARP logos. For ideas, check out previous years’ winners on the web site. Ensure your entry illustrates the manufacturers’ brands of supermarket products whose packaging is made from Australian recycled waste material (ARC or ARP logos are displayed on the package) as well as those that aren’t.
All entries must be in the mail to The Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign, PO Box 2210, Fortitude Valley, Qld 4006 by 5pm Friday, 20 September, 2013.

Conditions of Entry

Your Campaign in a hard copy (printed) form, or as a MS Word document file, pdf, j-peg on a CD you have made, and any media coverage received, to continuously remind everyone in the school and wider community of the things we must do every day in every facet of our daily life to ‘Make a Difference’; highlighting that ‘recycling only works, if you buy recycled first!’
You may submit as many entries as you like, but each entry must be accompanied by an official entry form or a photocopy of the form.
Together with your Entry, you should submit your entry with clippings from papers, newsletters to show what you have done in your community to protect the environment and promote the ‘buy recycled first’ message.
Please do not send any material that needs to be returned to you.
All entries must be in the mail to The Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign, PO Box 2210, Fortitude Valley, Qld 4006 by 5pm Friday 20 September, 2013.
The judge’s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Winners will be announced during National Recycling Week and will be posted on the ARC website at www.arc.org.au after National Recycling Week, November, 2013
The Office of the Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign disclaims all responsibility to return entries. All entries become the property of the Office of the Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign and are assumed intended for use in whole or part. As such, copyright or any other rights or entitlements arising from any or all of the entries reside with the Office of the Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign. Any use will be at the discretion of the Office of the Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign.

*In recognition of the enormous contribution made by teachers to their student’s education, the Campaign Office is providing to the Teacher coordinating the Winning Entry, $2,500 toward the costs of attending the professional development course of that teacher’s choice.

Each entry must also be accompanied by the Brochure / Entry Form printed by clicking here.

Send your entries to:
The Australian Recycled Cartonboard Campaign Office
PO Box 2210
Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Competition Closes 5pm Friday, 20 September, 2013

The following companies show they care about the environment and Australian jobs by using Australian Recycled Cartonboard and displaying the ARC or ARP logo on their packaging:

• Arnott’s Biscuits• Balfours Cakes

• Campbell Consumer Product

• Chef’s Pride

• Colgate Palmolive

• Cussons

• Dairy Farmers

• Effem Foods (Masterfoods)

• General Mills (Betty Crocker)

• Green’s General Foods

• Goodman Fielder (Uncle Toby’s)

• Heinz Watties Australasia

• Kellogg’s Australia

• KFC

• Kimberley-Clark Aust

• Merino Products

• Mother Earth Fine Foods

• McCormick Foods Australia

• National Foods

• Nerada Tea

• Noble Cakes

• Pace Farms

• Ricegrowers

• Sara Lee

• Snack Brands

• Southern Cross Laboratories

• Swedish Match Australia (Redheads)

• Village Roadshow

• YBD Pty Ltd