The Tidy Town Sustainable Community Committee - an organisation designed to improve the city's environmental status - has presented the Lutheran School with an award recognising environmental education.

The school took out highly commended in the category "sustaining our school and city".

Principal Ken Albinger said the award was a tribute to the school's biannual Sustainable Living Festival.

Mr Albinger said celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis has been a regular visitor to the school, teaching students how quirky innovations can sometimes lead to environmental protection.

"Costa told the students it's these small steps to recycle materials that can change the world and that's a powerful message," he said.

Meanwhile, the Tidy Town committee says litter at Jubilee Park has been reduced by 86 per cent since the installation of recycling bins.

Jubilee Park is one of Wagga's largest sporting complexes and is home to at least six sporting codes.

Committee president John Rumens said Jubilee Park was identified as a litter "hot spot" and attracted $5000 in funding to install the bins.

"The existing bins were a bin on a post, but new bins are bigger with waste on one side and recycling on the other," he said.

"That helps with two things - they contain a lot more rubbish and the recycling also helps reduce landfill."

The bins were launched yesterday, with the committee performing a handover to Wagga mayor Rod Kendall.

Mr Rumens said the litter reduction was identified through a rubbish count.

"It's been quite a dramatic reduction and it's really pleasing to see the results," he said.