Sustainability
Did you know that clean soft plastics can now be returned for recycling at Woolworths Hampton?
Give your soft plastics a second life! Return your clean and dry household soft plastics .
In partnership with Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia (SPSA), your soft plastics will be recycled into new products such as building materials and food grade packaging, helping to create a circular economy.
What your recycled soft plastics become
These examples show some of the ways soft plastics can be given a second life after being processed:
- Building materials such as wall panels and ceiling tiles
- Food packaging, including some bread bags
- Outdoor furniture and infrastructure like benches and fencing
- Household products such as garbage bag liners
They’re great examples of how recycling can turn everyday waste into useful new products.
Over 700 Woolworths stores have now rolled out this programme.
Our classrooms and the Classroom Waste Warriors will soon begin collecting soft plastics to be returned to Woolworths Hampton.
Garden Club Update
Our enthusiastic Tuesday Garden Club students have been busy preparing our garden beds for the winter growing season. This week we enjoyed harvesting a successful crop of radishes, much to the students’ excitement. We have recently planted both organic broad bean seeds and broad bean seedlings, and students are looking forward to observing and comparing how each crop grows. Garlic planted from individual cloves is thriving, and seedlings of coriander, lettuce and spinach, grown from seed, were transplanted into the garden beds this week.
Students also enjoyed planting two passionfruit plants into new blue pots and worked together to build a metal arch that will support the plants as they grow and climb.
Student reflection - Aida Y3
This term we have made an arch with Passion fruit. We have also planted garlic, trimmed and fed the plants and we have got all the snails out of the garden. We have Anne to help us, she is really nice.
Student reflection - Honor Y3
I joined Garden Club recently and what we have done is feed the Passionfruit, water all the plants and put the vegetables in the soil. I have so much fun in Garden Club and I can't wait to see what we are doing next.
Seeking potato plants
Please let Renae know in the office.