Brighton Primary Bulletin

Nude Food Day - How did we go?

Nude Food - Sophie, 6C JSC Rep

 

Thursday 5th of November was our very first day trialing Nude Food. Having only nude food can be challenging, but it is a really important thing to do to help the environment and stop rubbish from filling our yard. 

 

There are some easy swaps you could use, instead of using single-use plastic items (like ziplock bags or glad wrap). For example, you could use Tupperware/plastic containers and, instead of glad wrap, you can use beeswax wrapper (there are some good examples below). These are easy swaps that can help to stop having so much rubbish in our yard. Most people don’t think the rubbish in the yard is a big problem, but it really is. That rubbish can blow away, or go into our drains, which flow out into our ocean and waterways. This can be really harmful to the ocean and sea life. 

  • This week we had only 41% of students in Grade 3-6 with Nude Food lunch boxes.
  • This week we had only 54% of students Grade Prep-2 with Nude Food lunch boxes.

Thank you to everyone who had Nude Food lunch boxes. I hope after reading this,  you will be inspired to bring Nude Food to school next time.

 

Nude Food Lunch Box Examples. 

 

Join us on our NUDE FOOD movement at BPS every Tuesday and Thursday!

Brighton Primary's BPS Climate Change Team, Junior School Council and Grade 5 & 6 students thank families for supporting last week's Nude Food Thursday. This initiative received a good take-up on its first day with an average of 50% of students bringing to school full nude food lunch boxes. That is zero paper and plastic wrappings.

 

Our student-led teams would like to invite families and staff to continue to support the Nude Food initiative and help reduce landfill by participating in weekly Nude Food days held Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of Term 4.   

 

On Nude Food days, staff and students are encouraged to bring their lunch to school in reusable plastic containers without any paper or plastic wrappings. See our last newsletter for Nude Food lunch box tips https://newsletters.naavi.com/i/aJEk3A5

 

Our hope is to eventually eliminate food wrappers altogether in the coming years to help clean up our environment.

 

We know we can have a significant impact on landfill by simply avoiding the use of cling wrap, juice boxes, plastic water bottles and all unnecessary packaging.Did you know that:

  • the average primary school student generates up to 45kg of waste per year?*
  • Each year, Australians create 67 million tonnes of waste.  That's 2.7 tonnes, per person, per year - equating to roughly the weight of an African forest elephant!

We invite you to join us in our war on waste and bring along your FOOD NUDE on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Sources: 

  • https://www.recyclenow.com/recycling-knowledge/getting-started/recycling-at-school/how-much-does-your-school-waste
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-27/where-does-all-australias-waste-go/11755424