Sustainability
Sustainability News
What a wonderful job parents are doing in packing their children's snack and lunch boxes free of plastic. Nude Food rules. Well done!
Just a reminder to those who are a little unsure, St Joseph’s is a Resourscesmart School and rubbish bin free school, so anything that comes to school eg flexible/ single use plastics, yogurt drink tubes, etc need to go back home for recycling. For further information, go to the Mornington Peninsula Shire website: Single use Plastic Guidelines to help make a better choice.
What are single-use plastics? Single-use plastics are used only once, or for a limited time before being discarded.
The single-use plastics that will be banned for sale or supply across Victoria by February 2023 include:
- Single-use plastic drinking straws
- cutlery
- plates
- drink-stirrers
- expanded polystyrene food and drink containers
- cotton bud sticks
CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA
Clean up Australia is on this Sunday 6th March, 10am at Websters Corner, Sorrento. Come join us and help make a difference to our beautiful coast line. Please wear closed shoes. Gloves and rubbish bags are provided. Check in with Mrs Byrne at the end of St Paul’s road on Webster's beach .
Mornington Peninsula Schools Art Competition:
SAVE FLINDERS PIER.
Sustainability Students in year 5/6 (with a little help from some 3/4 students in the Green Gang) have completed their mixed media collage entry for the 'Save The Flinders Pier.' Art Competition.
We acknowledge Josie Jones OAM and her work with The Last Straw project promoting end to waste on the Mornington Peninsula.
Boomerang bags.
The Sorrento Boomerang Bag ladies have donated to school a small quantity of hand made cloth masks. These ladies do amazing work in our community, if you have any unused material that you can donate to them they would very grateful for any donations.
If anyone would like a small mask for their child please ask at the office.
Bread Tags For Wheelchairs.
keep sending your bread tags to school, we are still participating in this amazing project. So far St Joseph's have collected an amazing 5.5 kilos.
Jane Byrne
(Sustainability)