Sustainability - Catchment Workshop
All students attending St Louis de Montfort's Aspendale have the right to feel safe. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people is a fundamental responsibility of all within our school.
Catchment Workshop
On Thursday 12th June, 2025, the DRI Ambassadors, Robert, Skye and Matilda participated in a fantastic Catchment Workshop at the beautiful Namatjira Wetlands.
We began with the awesome team from Greenworks who gave a litter trap removal demonstration. In response to some fantastic questions from Ambassadors, the Greenworks team discussed the huge costs involved in removing litter from the
hundreds of traps within the Kingston region, and the pathways of some of the litter in the nets, including how this litter flows from the local streets into stormwater drains. This demonstration highlighted the vital importance of wetlands in trapping pollutants from flowing into the waterways. All attending gained a greater appreciation for their local council regarding the enormous work they undertake to help minimise the litter entering our waterways!
We finished with a litter collection and discussed the sources and types of litter collected, alongside the many solutions and alternatives, including simple actions we can take, to reduce our litter consumption.
