Sustainability    

LAST WEEK WAS NATIONAL RECYCLING WEEK 

This year’s theme is “RESCUE ME!” 

The theme is to encourage people to reduce waste, reuse materials and recycle correctly. 

LIDS FOR KIDS RECYCLING PROGRAM

Pathways Sustainability students participated in sorting and weighing plastic lids collected in Term3 and 4. They sort lids according to size and colour. 

Results are in for plastic lids in our House colours. 

1st Respectful House with 454g

2ndResponsible House with 325g

3rd Learner House with 138g

4th Safe House with 101g

Every house is a winner with a total of 1.18kg collected. Donations of white plastic lids weighed 2.63 kg. That’s a great effort for this semester. Thank you to our school community who are doing a great job recycling for a cause. Just a reminder: if you donate lids, please make sure the lids are clean, so we do not have any contamination issues when we bag and send them off to the recycling hubs. 

BRING IT BACK RECYCLING PROGRAM

What do you do with old pens, markers and textas that don’t work anymore? 

Senior McNeil student Monique knows what to do. Her class love drawing and colouring and have a big collection of textas. Instead of throwing textas out that don’t work, Monique is collecting them in her class to put them into the special recycling box in the staffroom.  

 Have you noticed that your local Officeworks has a Bring it back recycling program. Naranga has been involved in this program with Officeworks for 3 years. 

Remember: Putting your pens, textas and markers in the box keeps them out of landfill and turns the materials into new items. 

If you want to learn more go to the Officeworks website 

www.officeworks.com.au/schoolrecycling

RECYCLING BLISTER PACKS     

Blister packs (the packaging that pills and tablets come in) contain aluminium and plastic. It cannot go into kerbside recycling because it contains two varied materials.

Pharmacycle is a company that is working with Blooms the chemist and Chemist Warehouse on a recycling program. Instead of the blister packs ending up in landfill now you can look for the recycling bin at the chemist. 

Naranga School has a Blister pack bin in the sick bay. As the bin fills up, we will responsibly empty it in the bin provided at Chemist Warehouse. 

 The used packets go to a specialist recycling facility who separate the materials to make new products. At the factory, workers shred the aluminium into small pieces before melting the pieces into flakes, pellets, and powder. This new aluminium product goes to manufacturing companies to make new products such as outdoor furniture and plastic shipping pallets. 

Aluminium is a metal mined from the ground. Instead of depleting it recycling aluminium repeatedly reduces energy by up to 95 per cent. (sighted from Planet Ark)

This term we have emptied the box twice. Our recycling effort has removed 102 blister packs from landfill.