This Year’s (2010) Competition

Students, you could WIN up to $10,000 for your School, simply by creating a Play or Film to show how all of us need to change to achieve a sustainable future.

Create a Play or Film to show how all of us need to change to achieve a sustainable future, and you could Win Up To $10,000 For Your School!

Creatively employ humor, drama, satire or music, or a combination of any, to take the message in your ‘work’ to your school and wider communities, and you will ‘Make a Difference’.

All great creative works driving change have had their beginnings in good research.

Research the competing interests of the big retailers, their supplier manufacturers, government, media, and the consumers of today and tomorrow; all have their own different priorities and ways of achieving them – their competing interests.

For decades, the environment has been the loser. The winds of change are blowing. Portraying self interest, in contrast with the community interest, will accelerate the understanding process, and with it, the winds of change will gather strength.

What are the characteristics of sustainable development?

A society in which industry is as committed to using the efforts of recycling, as is the community to buying recycled!
A society which harnesses its natural resources for their preservation and enhancement, as well as the richness of our own lives.
A society which seeks to grow its future on renewable energy, and aggressively diminish its carbon emissions.

Your Play or Film needs to have its audience leaving the theatre wanting more change faster, with a clear understanding of who and what are changing for the better; as well as knowing who and what are holding us back from achieving the sustainable development, our survival demands.

Invite your community and business leaders, as well as the media to the screening of your film or your play’s performance.

Make the premiere the most successful mouthpiece for a sustainable environment your community has experienced.

Find interesting ways to depict the behaviors we all need to adopt, ‘sing out’ the slogans you want brought to life, select local celebrities or community leaders to get even more attention for our messages. Have it captured and told in all the media of your choice.

Keep in mind, more than anything, we need to get industry to do things differently; to get them to do more of the good things; to use the waste we recycle; to recycle the water they use; and to use less energy. Highlight those that do and don’t!

The ARC Schools Competition makes a real difference

The ARC National Schools Competition has been the central activity of the ARC recycled cartonboard packaging campaign since it started its life in 1994. At that time, cartonboard was the only primary grocery packaging that was made largely from recycled waste.

The success of Australian school children in making a difference is proven by industry now also using aluminum (64%) and some plastic (21%) and glass (35%) packaging.

Switching to Australian recycled packaging not only promotes recycling and saves Australian jobs, it also takes away the market for High Conservation Value Forests, the habitat of such endangered species as the Sumatran Tiger.