Sustainability

Sensory Garden - Garden Club

The sensory garden next to the Foundation playground is starting to take shape. Recently some old plantings were relocated and a variety of new plants were added. A friendship bench has been relocated to this area, along with some planter boxes. The next job for the Garden Club is to paint the students' designs on the stepping stones. We cannot wait to show you what it looks like when it is completed!

Plastic Recycling - Australian Government Initiative

In some very exciting news, the Australian Government has invested $20 million to support the development of Recycling Plastics Australia’s new domestic soft plastics recycling facility in Kilburn.

The centre is expected to divert 14,000 tonnes of soft plastics from South Australian landfills annually. It will process materials such as shopping bags, crisp packets, and food wrappers, turning them into feedstock for use in new packaging.

The funding will see the Kilburn site in South Australia become the prominent soft-plastic recycling processor for Australia, with materials recycled here and sold into local and global packaging markets. It is envisaged that in the future, other states will send collections of soft plastic to Kilburn for recycling.

In addition to funding recycling centres, the Australian government is focusing on improving packaging design through new national packaging laws. These laws will mandate that packaging be designed in accordance with circular economy principles, ensuring it can be recovered, reused, recycled, and reprocessed safely. On a national scale, the government is scaling up recycling capacity by over one million tonnes per year.

Source: Australian Circular Economy Hub News - https://acehub.org.au/news