Getting set for Food Studies

Student-designed healthy lunchboxes from Food class

Reducing waste in the Food Faculty

Our plea every year is for all our students to bring a container from home for every practical Food Tech class. If everyone does this one small thing, we avoid food waste.

‘Over 5 million tonnes of food ends up as landfill, enough to fill 9,000 Olympic sized swimming pools. One in five shopping bags end up in the bin = $3,800 worth of groceries per household each year. 35% of the average household bin is food waste’.

(OzHarvest food waste facts Jan 2020)

We also encourage ‘nude food’ for lunches, reducing plastic wrappers which end up as landfill.

'Plastic lasts forever and cannot biodegrade – it breaks down into smaller pieces and accumulates in the environment. In Australia, we generated about 2.5Mt of plastic waste in 2014-15 (107kg per person). Of this, only 14% was recycled – the remaining 2.2Mt went to landfill.'

(The Plastics Problem, trashlesstakeaway.com.au)

Bringing a container gives an opportunity to share food with family and friends.

Please help us by reminding you child to bring a container.

Thank you!