Riverside Rewards - Justin's Project

Riverside Primary School have stepped right up and planned three projects. Wonderful news! Yesterday I visited the school and presented Justin with his wormfarm and worms in front of the whole school. I think Justin was pretty excited. I am going to be his Doing More With Less Mentor because I have a wormfarm too and we can share the stories of our worms. Hey, Justin, I think some of my worms are having babies because they have a white band around their tummy! Is that right? Hey - thanks to Alcoa Foundation for the wormfarm and the worms!

I look forward to sharing my worm stories with you too! From Cat

North Parmelia Primary School

North Parmelia Primary Sustainability ideas

Challenges

Bins
• Money issues
• People might put the wrong thing in the wrong bin
• Damage to bins - kicked over

Wrapper free Wednesday
• Convincing people to do it
• Finding things that are wrapper free

Worm farm
• Keeping them moist
• People put the wrong thing in the compost bins
• People going in and taking out the worms

Opportunity - To promote in our school• Classroom competitions - the winning class will receive a trophy and a certificate
• Inform others using posters and videos
• Workshops

What do we need?• Coloured bins
• More worm bins/ big worm farms
• Prizes
• Certificates
• Money
• People that say yes

MK Rejects Plastic Name Tags

At the Doing More With Less Sustainability Roadshow Mat from Medina Primary School did an audit on some of the resources MK was using at the Roadshow. Kids designed some new games that were waste free and suggested in future we source a new chocolate product that is not wrapped in packaging. Even the plastic name tags came into question. So this morning the MK team counted all the plastic names tags that had been returned for reuse. The team had purchased a box of 200 name tags in 2010. In 2012 after the last Roadshow there were just 6 left, so MK will no longer buy these non recyclable items. We will simply have to find an eco friendly way to identify people. Any suggestions?

South Coast Baptist College

South Coast Baptist College Teams - Go Team!

Medina Primary School

Medina Primary School Team! Go team!

Calista Primary School

Calista Primary School Team! Go team!

Problem:

Too many food scraps going into the green rubbish bin at school

Solution:
To create a worm farm and compost heap
We would like to create colour-coded bins

Challenges:
Finding a place to have the worm farm



Opportunity:

• Raising money
• Reducing rubbish to land fill
• Building the worm farm and compost heaps

What do you need?
A place to put the worms, colour-coded bins, bigger worm farms, compost tumblers, worms, money, advertisements and soil.

Bertram Primary School

Bertram MK Team! Go team!

Our community group will be made up out of year 4,5,6 's to help keep our school environment clean and healthy in our swale and our school.we need to keep our environment in the swale clean because we have a lot of native animals and native plants living in there. After lunch and recess small groups will go out and pick up the rubbish. We will need buckets, gloves and buckets and coloured vest so students and staff can identify us when we are walking through the school.

We have worm farms, compost, chickens, solar panels. For fun we do kitchen, garden, music, sport and active dance. 

Alcoa can help us with more bins, colored vests, buckets, gloves and tongs.Can you give us some ideas and resources to keep our school and community clean. Could you please help us clean the outside areas such as, the swale, basketball courts, oval and playgrounds. It would help our school get cleaner. It would make a big difference to our school and hopefully be one of the best schools in Perth .

PLEASE help our SCHOOL