Climate Canons

The Climate Canons

On Thursday 9 May, 27 students who are dedicating their time to the Climate Canons, a student-led sustainability committee, visited the Total Green Recycling facilities in Kewdale. Total Green Recycling are minimising e-waste making its way to landfill by repurposing, reusing and recycling electronic devices such as laptops, computers, hard drives, TVs, power cords and so much more. All items used to make these products that have any value are stripped and sold to be reused. Total Green Recycling are putting a stop on the flow of e-waste to landfill, recovering useful materials and redirecting them into productive, profitable, green enterprise solutions. They are striving to clean our environment and to reduce carbon emissions, one electronic device at a time. In 2018 Total Green Recycling recycled and recovered 2356 tonnes of e-waste. This amount accounts for 500,000 electronic items.

You can help by dropping off your e-waste to collection centers all over the metropolitan area (Total Green Recycling is at 26 Miles Road Kewdale or at your nearest Officeworks). Total Green Recycling are also running a petition to give to the Western Australian Government to put a stop to all e-waste entering landfill. You can read more and sign the petition at totalgreenrecycling.com.au/petition. For information about the company check them out at www.totalgreenrecycling.com.au. Thank you to Michael and Sharka at Total Green Recycling for educating us on e-waste and to Mr Saunders, Mr Openshaw, Mrs Silva and Miss Pisconeri for the opportunity.

Student responses

My experience at Total Green Recycling was definitely one to remember for all the best reasons. It really opened my eyes to the extreme importance of recycling instead of carelessly throwing precious materials into landfill. If it made a change for me, I'm certain it can make a change for anyone else who joins the Climate Canons and makes a difference. Even if it's a small difference, it's a difference none the less.   Sophie Griffiths

At Total Green Recycling, we learned how they have innovated their own system to recycle and how things that we throw away can be recycled and reused. Their goal is to ban electronics going to the land fill. We also learned how as a school community we can improve our recycling and the Climate Canons have the support  of Total Green Recycling to help us reduce our e-waste.   Nainpreet Kaur

Miss D Pisconeri (Humanities and

Social Sciences Teacher (Geography)