Sustainability

SUSTAINABILITY NEWS

The Gardening Club and Yr 1/2MB and 1/2AS students have been very busy in our gardens over the last couple of weeks! We learned that when we put food scraps into landfill, it creates “methane” - one of the gasses that cause global warming. So this is why we want to compost our food waste at Trinity. We had a look at our worm farms, which have now got thousands of happy worms making lovely soil for our gardens. Each student planted some seeds into their own individual pots and will be excitedly watching cauliflower, radishes, spring onions and edible calendula flowers grow over the next few weeks.

Our Compost Ninjas program has been a great success, with students collecting food scraps every day, and today we cut them up small and fed them to our worms. We will be looking at how much we have been able to lessen our waste, through this project.

SUPER 20% DISCOUNTS - ORDER YOUR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BOXES

Farmers’ Pick have offered us a huge 20% off for all new orders! Trinity is participating in the ‘Feed Our School’ fundraising initiative by Farmers Pick, an organisation that prevents ‘perfectly imperfect’ fruit and veg from ending up in landfill by selling boxes of this produce that supermarkets can't. Families can order fruit and veg boxes online, and have it conveniently delivered to Trinity every Tuesday.  Better yet, their produce is priced up to 30% less than at the supermarket, and Trinity receives $5 for every box ordered! See flyers attached for more information. 

https://farmerspick.com.au/feed-our-school/

THINGS WE NEED

We are looking for netting to protect our precious plants from the hungry possums.

NUDE FOOD DAY - NEW DAY - THURSDAYS 

Congratulations 5/6FA, who had 20 Nude Food lunches today. We ask students to choose foods which create no rubbish to bring for lunch on Thursdays. 

Let’s see how many students can bring a rubbish free lunch next week! Some great ideas can be found at https://www.nudefoodday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HOW-TO-PACK-A-NUDE-FOOD-LUNCH.pdf

Have a great week everyone! Thanks for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!

The Sustainability Team - Ms Belinda and the Sustainability Leaders, Charlotte and Ahn