Resource Smart School Awards 2024 

On the 4th of June, representatives from Aitken College attended the RSS Awards at the MCG. The ResourceSmart Schools Awards are Victoria’s largest celebration of sustainability in schools and celebrates the work done to innovate school curriculum and connections to community.

Aitken College were finalists (1 of 3 schools to be nominated) in the following categories:

• Community Leadership School of the Year (Secondary)
• Curriculum Leadership School of the Year (Secondary)
• Teacher of the Year (Secondary)

There are 1600 ResourceSmart Schools in Victoria.

Victorian Container Deposit Scheme

Aitken College is participating in Victoria’s container deposit scheme to try and reduce the amount of plastic drink containers ending up in landfill and raise money for Tangaroa Blue Foundation.

There are two ways the College Community can support this initiative:

Take your used drink bottles (Figure 1) to a deposit station and donate your refund to Tangaroa Blue Foundation by the using the – Charity Number: C2000009783

or by downloading the Tangaroa Blue Foundation unique barcode (Figure 2) to scan at your local refund point: 

Students can deposit drink containers that they have purchased from the school canteen at the deposit station located next to the canteen.

Tangaroa Blue Foundation is an Australian-wide not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris: one of the major environmental issues worldwide.

For more information on Tangaroa Blue you can visit the following website:  https://www.tangaroablue.org/