“This term has been a phenomenal term for the Environment Council particularly with the continued and growing support of the Return and Earn Scheme, the classroom colour coded Eco Bins, EnviroSci Week and Recycling Week initiatives. As well as this, the year group “Can and Bottle Collection Competition” was a huge success. Year 12 were our winners for this competition, they were equal to Year 9 until some last-minute locker clearing pushed them into the lead. Well done to everyone involved, particularly Year 12 for taking the lead with this.

One of the things that has unfortunately let us down is the participation in the collection for Red-Cycle with the scrunchables. “Scrunchables” is a term used to describe plastic waste that is scrunchable. This may include chip packets, lolly wrappers, squeezy yoghurts and ice cream wrappers. What it does not include is aluminium foil or food of any description. We would have liked to donate our collection for this so that new plastic materials can be manufactured, however, it was not possible due to the other waste items that were disposed of into this bin.

Please click on the link to gain more information about RedCycle: https://www.redcycle.net.au/

We really hope that for next year, we take more care in what appropriate waste goes into these bins. Thank you for all the support so far girls but as always there’s more to do. It is so important that next year your enthusiasm, participation and genuine care for our environment and our school grounds continues. See you in 2019 for some great new initiatives!!” - Environment Captain Rhiannon K.

Maria Boulastakos - Acting Year 11 Coordinator