Sustainability News

Sustainability 

Victorian School Gardening Association Award Winners

In December 2021, St Columba's received the BEST SCHOOL EXHIBITING BIODIVERSITY AWARD!! It was a tremendous achievement and a tribute to all our hard work and efforts to create indiegnous school garden spaces. St Columba's received $1000 to spend on plants and garden supplies! Thanks to the amazing Green Team for their hard work and dedication to our schools sustainability successes. 

Recycle Old Clothes and School Uniforms

Do you have piles of unwanted clothes and school uniforms that are sitting in your house?? Instead of throwing them away or sending them straight to the op shop where they may not always be used, donate them to Upparel. 

Upparel is the leader in Textile recycling! For a small fee, upparel will collect your items and either pass them on to Australian Partners such as Save the Children, Sacred Heart Mission, Ready Set Australia, St Kildas Mum's and Good360 or they will be up-cycled into new items or materials. 

Visit- https://upparel.com.au/clothing-recycling/

Give your Batteries New Life

Recycle your batteries using B-Cycle collection points around Melbourne. 

Throwing batteries away causes many to leak toxic materials into the environment. B-Cycle reuses the precious materials in dead or old batteries, helping to conserve more nature and it's resources by mining less from the earth. 

The nearest B-Cyle drop off points include:

Woolworths- Acland Street, St Kilda

Aldi- Inkerman Street, St Kilda

Officeworks- Elsternwick

Visit- https://bcycle.com.au/