Rubbish Rebel Waste 

Term 4 of Environmental Science 

This term our focus is on energy. Students will work on exploring different energy sources, how we use energy and what forces slow or speed up different objects. 

Holiday Enviro Stars! 

Over the holidays Hugh and Ryder in Grade 1 saw how much rubbish was piling up between the station and the fruit growers reserve so they decided to do something about it. They spent the day collecting rubbish along the path near the skate park in Somerville all the way to the station. They collected 10 bags worth of rubbish, well done Hugh and Ryder. 

Tablet blister pack collection

Our school is continuing to add solutions to waste in our community. We have recently purchased a Terracycle recycling bin to collect tablet blister packs to be sent away for recycling. If you have any tablet blister packs at your home you can send them to school with your child and they can drop them into the Enviro room collection box. 

NO MEDICATION IS TO BE LEFT IN THE BLISTER PACKS. 

This project is funded by the Mornington Peninsula Shire Climate Action Grant. 

Oral care collection

Our school has signed up for the Terracycle/ Colgate Community Garden challenge. We need your used oral care packaging to earn us votes, the more product packages we collect the more votes we earn, the better our chances of winning a community garden! It’s easy to get involved, simply bring ANY BRAND completed oral care products (image below) and we will collect them and send them away for recycling. 

Great news - we will continue collecting these until the end of the year! 

 Single use coffee cups - Poster competition

We want to jazz up our cup recycling tubes with an SPS poster and we are having a competition to find a poster. 

The coffee cup recycling tubes are located at the front of the office, rear of the administration building and in the staff room so we are looking for 3 different posters. The coffee cups are recycled through the Simply Cups recycling program to avoid going to landfill. 

If you have a poster design please bring it to the Enviro room before October 21st.