Sustainability Corner
Kaya Wanjoo – Hello and welcome.
After School Garden Club
The After School Garden Club is in full swing with many exciting things happening this term. There are currently a few places left. Get your permission slip in quick.
Recycling Station
Remember to keep on bringing in your items for recycling. See the attached for what you can bring in. When dropping it in to the school please put it into the correct bin. Make sure items are not in a plastic bag and are clean. Our students diligently go through the bins in order to pack and send off for recycling and we don’t want nasty surprises for them. Our focus bin this newsletter is Coffee Pods – the need to be clean, not leaking and not in another bag. These are then packaged and sent to a local TerraCycle Material Recovery Facilities located in the same country in which the waste originates. Once sorted by category, the different material types are cleaned and then sent to third-party partners to process the materials into usable forms.
If you would like to know more about what you can do at home for recycling, go to www.terracycle.com.au
Chicken Coop is a Go!
The chicken coop has been partially funded by a grant from Waste Sorted Schools, with JESC topping up the remainder.
Containers for Change
Thanks to a kind donation from Emily Hamilton (MLA – Member for Joondalup), the school now has key tags with our school recycling number on it. So, you can take your 10c containers straight to a recycling point. Tags will be going home within the next week. Alternatively, you can still pop them in the big bin near admin and put the lids in the small green bin next to it. This is a joint fundraising effort between the P&C and Sustainability. We encourage you to support a worthy cause. The money raised will go towards the purchase of a table with seating that is made out of plastic bottles. The students have chosen this as their goal and initiative of giving back to the school. It will go into the vegetable garden area to make this area an outdoor learning space.
Happy gardening and sustainable thinking,
Sandra Bennett – Environment & Sustainability Teacher (JESC). Sustainability Coordinator (Joondalup Schools)