Sustainability
Our year 3/4 students have been planting garlic.
Reminder that you can continue to send in your bread tags.
Did you know? You can recycle the following items and post them to:
Banish Recycling Program
Gadigal Land
866 Bourke Street,
Waterloo NSW 2017.
- Toothpaste tubes, floss containers and old plastic toothbrushes
- Electric toothbrush heads
- Medical ointment tubes
- Hair gel tubes and caps
- Hair paste plastic jars and caps
- Lip balm tubes
- Face soap dispensers and tubes
- Lotion bottles, tubes, dispensers, and jars
- Shaving foam tubes (no cans)
- Plastic razors and blades
- Lip gloss tubes
- Mascara tubes
- Eye liner pencils and cases
- Eye shadow tubes
- Concealer tubes and sticks
- Medical blister packs
When they receive your package they will send you a confirmation email and a $15 voucher to spend online.
RSS Awards 2022: Now for the future
The Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, announced the finalists on social media and via media release last Friday and St Joseph's was announced as a finalist! Congratulations Jane for your outstanding Sustainability Program. How lucky we are.
Jane, myself and some student representatives along with other finalist schools will attend an awards ceremony at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 2 June 2022. The event will be attended by the Minister of Energy, Environment and Climate Change and other distinguished guests.Winners announced at in-person ceremony at the MCG.
The ResourceSmart School Awards are the Victoria’s largest sustainability celebration for primary and secondary school students, teachers and school volunteers taking remarkable sustainability action.
The ResourceSmart School Awards is a positive, future focused event which celebrates sustainability leadership in Victorian primary and secondary schools.
For 2022, the Awards theme is ‘Now for the future’ and celebrates sustainability actions taking place now in ResourceSmart Schools across Victoria.
About ResourceSmart Schools
Sustainability Victoria’s ResourceSmart Schools program is an international award-winning program that provides practical support for schools to make cost savings, integrate sustainability into the curriculum and share learnings beyond the school gate.
The ResourceSmart Schools Program supports schools to take action on climate change by minimising waste, improving energy and water efficiency and promoting biodiversity to benefit their school and community.
Since 2008, over 1,400 Victorian schools have participated, saving 118,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases and $41 million. This is $26 million in energy savings, $9.5 million through waste reduction and recycling, and $5.5 million in water savings.
As at 1 March 2022, the schools participating in the program reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 15,075 tonnes CO2e, with $4.3 million in energy savings throughout the 2021 school year. ResourceSmart Schools is helping Victoria to transition to a zero-net carbon, circular economy by 2050.
ResourceSmart Schools supports Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy, by empowering school communities to reduce their emissions.