Last Nude Food Day for 2022

Monday 12th December will be our last Nude Food Day for the year. We are letting you know in advance because our aim is to have zero wrappers in every classroom. Please have a discussion at home before Monday 12th December to discuss how students can bring their favourite foods to school without wrappers, cling wrap or snap lock bags. Below are some ideas!

Nude Food Lunchbox Ideas

Clothes Recycling

We’ve all got clothes we don’t wear anymore and shoes we’ve grown out of. There are many things you can do with your clothes after you’ve finished with them. Did you know that, in Australia alone, six tons of clothes goes to landfill every ten minutes? This adds up to 700,000 tons every year! Clothes in landfill can do a lot of damage to our environment. Dyes and chemicals end up in waterways and if clothes are burned, they can produce greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases just make climate change worse.

Here are some of the things you can do with your clothes depending on whether they’re in good condition or bad condition. If you have finished with your clothes because they’re scruffy and don’t look nice anymore then nobody else will want them. On the contrary, if you’ve grown out of your clothes or just don’t wear them anymore, then they can be rehomed to someone else who will love them.

Good Condition

You can pass them on to family and friends.
If you have school uniform you’ve grown out of or you’re in year six and don’t need your uniform, you can donate them to the school. They must have the school logo on them. The school will then sell them at the second hand uniform shop. This is a great way for Year Six students to rehome their uniform if it is still wearable. Year Six jumpers and t-shirts with “Class of 2022” on the back will not be accepted because they are specific to 2022 and can not be worn again. See the suggestions below on how to recycle your 2022 Year Six uniform.
You can donate good clothes or anything in good condition that you don’t need to Op shops. Op shops will then sell them for a cheaper price and something that is not important to you will be loved by somebody else. You can either drop them into an Op shop when they’re open or you can place bags in the designated big metal bins. They can be found in carparks or at council places for example libraries and pools.
You could collect all your family and friend’s items and clothing they don’t need and hold a garage sale with them. You will be rehoming items and you might also make some money.
If your items and clothing are in excellent condition you can sell them on E-bay or Gumtree. Anyone will be able to see the item and decide whether that would suit them.

Bad Condition

Many shoe shops like “Shoes and Sox” and “Athletes Foot” collect old shoes and recycle them. Some take the rubber out of the shoes while others rehome the shoe if they have life left in them. Instead of throwing out your old shoes, bring them to a store that participates in shoe recycling. They can be completely falling apart or just new.
If your clothes just have a hole or rip there is no need to throw it out. Just repair the hole or rip. All you need is a needle and some thread that is the same colour as your clothing. Here is a video to explain how to repair a small rip or hole: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+repair+clothes+with+holes&rlz=1C1UEAD_enAU1021AU1021&ei=UP-GY7j8KdCM4-EPi6GEWA&ved=0ahUKEwi45LOqqtX7AhVQxjgGHYsQAQsQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=how+to+repair+clothes+with+holes&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCAAQgAQyBggAEBYQHjIFCAAQhgMyBQgAEIYDMgUIABCGAzoKCAAQRxDWBBCwA0oECEEYAEoECEYYAFC5Ali5AmCpBGgBcAF4AIABrAGIAawBkgEDMC4xmAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#kpvalbx=_s_-GY9-PNbnV4-EPtdqRYA_25
The “H&M” shop recycles old clothes in any condition. Just bring your bag of clothes to any of their stores and hand it in. You will receive a discount voucher for your next purchase at H&M, as a thank you. It’s as easy as that! H&M will then sort through all the clothes and categorize them into three categories:

Re-wear - The clothes will be sold as second hand clothing.

Reuse- The clothes will be pulled apart and the fabric will be reused to make other clothes.

Recycle- The clothes will be shredded into fibres and then used to make new clothes.

In 2020, H&M recycled 18,800 tonnes of clothes that weren’t needed. That’s like recycling 94 million t-shirts!

In some H&M stores in Europe, you can rent clothes instead of having to buy them for one occasion and then having them go to waste.

This website will tell you where your closest clothing drop off points are: https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/clothing/WhitehorseVIC If you click on a location and scroll to the bottom you can make sure they allow drop offs.

These are just some of the many ways to recycle and rehome clothes that you no longer wear. If you’re not wearing your clothes then somebody else might as well be.

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