BERWICK’S Beaconhills Campus hosted a Clean Up Australia Day event on 4 March – not just as an opportunity to pick up rubbish, but to spread the wider green message.
In line with their house colour, middle school students from Woods House have decided to ‘go green’ to help out on Clean Up Australia Day as part of the campaign to lighten the College’s environmental footprint.
They kicked off their new campaign with a clean-up day at the school on Friday, using the four-bin system the college has introduced as part of its sustainability plan. The plan has an ambitious target of no waste going to landfill by 2015.
Head of Woods House Danielle Negri said picking up rubbish provided a good lesson on how much unnecessary waste was not being properly recycled.
“The bags of rubbish they collected certainly gave students a clear representation of what was causing litter at the school,” Ms Negri said.
She said it also helped students understand how to effectively separate rubbish into the organic, mixed plastics, paper and landfill bins.
The large amount of food containers and food wrap found also showed students the need to be mindful of what went into their lunchboxes, she said.
Students have a tree-planting day planned next and one Grade 6 student is preparing to enter a video showcasing the college’s environmental initiatives in the Clean Up Australia Day video competition.
Beaconhills has introduced a number of strategies to cut waste and energy and water use, including three worm farms. The worms eat around 13 tonnes of organic waste from the college each year – waste that would normally go to landfill.
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