The Plastic Free Riverpark Program works with riverfront events, food and beverage businesses, sporting groups and local governments to reduce single-use packaging, particularly single-use plastic packaging, in the Swan Canning Riverpark.

Since the start of the program, Plastic Free Riverpark has supported more than 120 events and businesses to reduce 3.2 million single-use food and beverage packaging items from their organisations and supply chains with more than $370,000 in grant funding.

The Swan Canning Riverpark is socially, culturally and economically significant to the people of Perth. It is also home to a diverse range of flora and fauna, including more than 80 bird species, 200 recorded species of fish, and 20-25 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins.

Packaging is often littered and has the potential to pose a major risk to the Swan Canning Riverpark. Wildlife can ingest or become entangled in plastic debris. Packaging washing up on foreshores can affect root growth of flora and visitor amenity. Remaining debris can impact tourism, block drainage infrastructure, and break up into harmful microplastics.

Streams: 

• Plastic Free Riverpark Business Grants
• Plastic Free Riverpark Event Grants

Business grants

Either be: 

• A food or beverage business (caf, restaurant, bar, pub) operating for at least three hours per day, three days per week. OR 
• A sporting organisation, such as a rowing club or yacht club, whose primary activity occurs in the Swan Canning Riverpark. OR 
• A vessel charter operator with one or more vessels operating in the Swan Canning Riverpark.

Event Grants

Must:

• Be a riverfront local government whose jurisdiction includes a section of Swan Canning Riverpark shoreline, or an event management organisation delivering an event within 1km of the Swan Canning Riverpark.
• Agree to undertake a sustainable event consultation to review event policies and procedures.
• Supply an ABN and notice of GST registration.
• Promote the event as a Plastic Free Riverpark event. Logos will be provided by DBCA.

See guidelines for further details.

• Email: plasticfreeriverpark@dbca.wa.gov.au