Environment

Greening the Street

The Street’s commitment to sustainability encompasses programming, purchasing, asset and building management as well as behavioural considerations.

We operate within the following clearly-defined principles to ensure that The Street is run in an environmentally-friendly and sustainable manner.

1. The Street complies with all applicable legislation and requirements.
2. The Street works with artsACT to manage assets and the building in line with ACT Government’s Sustainable Energy Policy.
3. We aim to reduce all printed material produced by The Street and do not produce brochures and flyers with limited posters.
4. We actively encourage people to receive emails.
5. We actively encourage people to visit our website for information rather than relying on printed material.
6. We actively encourage people to distribute information electronically rather than in print.
7. We ensure all our air conditioning (gas and electric) are on timers and attached to discrete spaces. As gas appliances fail they will be replaced by electrical appliances. 
8. We seek to minimise unnecessary travel.
9. We require all our creative, production, and administration teams to reduce wastage of power and resources, and to reuse existing stock.
10. We recycle paper, cardboard, plastic, polystyrene, batteries, lightbulbs, electrical equipment, wood and steel.
11. We look to ensure our sets and costumes are locally sourced as a first choice, repurpose materials and where possible re-use to minimise carbon footprint.

Conscious of keeping waste to a minimum we use waste management services to take care of our recycling needs where possible. Below is a list of our recycling arrangements.

Paper Recycling – Veolia
Cardboard Recycling – JJ Richards
Co-mingled Recycling – Veolia
Used Cooking Oil – Waste Away
Toner Cartridge Disposal – Close The Loop
Battery Recycling – Veolia
Fluorescent Tube + Light Globe Recycling – Veolia

Our public bathrooms have water systems with a high water conservation rating and sensor lighting is a feature of our artist/work bathrooms attached to Street Three.

2015 / upgrade of foyer lighting stock to energy efficient LEDs.

2020 - 2021 / The Street developed a scoping document and proposal to transition The Street's theatrical lighting systems and associated technologies from Halogen - LED transition and submitted the proposal to artsACT and ACT Government in 2022.