Only stocking fair trade coffee and hot chocolate, and giving preference to local food producers and suppliers.

The paper hand towel in our washrooms has been replaced with more sustainable eco hand-dryers.

We only have one printer in the Sanctuary - ensuring office printing is kept to a minimum and only for essential items.

Plastic bags have been removed from the gift shop and paper carry bags are now given to guests for their purchases upon request.

The garbage bins that we have in the park at the moment require a plastic bag liner to catch the rubbish. These are emptied daily, and while we try to re-use any plastic liners that are in a fit condition the system means that we do go through a large number of plastic bags every week. What we plan to do is phase out these plastic liners and switch to non-lined bins that can be easily emptied, hosed out and then re-used.

While at the Sanctuary, guests are encouraged to recycle glass, cans and plastics through the placement of recycling bins in high traffic areas.

Sanctuary waste is divided into separate bins for paper, cardboard, aluminium, glass and plastic. These are then collected and recycled.

Bore water is used for watering lawns and gardens through a grid of manually rotated sprinkler ports. This water reticulates back into the water table to be reused.

Greywater from the Sanctuary is collected and processed by an Envirocycle system for use in the toilets.

Many of our marine animals have trouble distinguishing floating plastic from food and will eat small plastic fragments such as bottle caps and rings, and bits of broken plastic. Seabirds are regularly found with their stomachs packed full of these items which can lead to serious injury and starvation.

To help reduce this risk, we have replaced plastic drink bottles in our shop with glass alternatives with metal lids.