Sustainability News

Dear MGC Community,

Congratulations to everyone who has embraced the #WarOnWaste and worked to reduce their disposable product use this year. Despite the positive campaigns centred around reducing food packaging and recycling, the amount we have sent to landfill at MGC has not decreased. We have actually increased the amount of waste per student since we started monitoring this in 2011 (see below).

This is a call to arms!

Parents, please help your students to bring their lunch plastic free!

Consumers of hot beverages, don’t be lazy, bring your own mug to the canteen or café and stop filling our bins with non-recyclable, non-biodegradable disposable coffee cups!

*Note that you can buy discount Keepcups from the front office*

 

Stop sucking! Refuse straws and plastic cutlery whenever you purchase takeaway food and drinks (You can still hire a metal fork or spoon at the canteen if you forget your BYO)

 

Staff and students –Take your food scraps home or make a communal container for your friends to put all your scraps in to take to the solar compost cones or worm bins at the end of your lunch- Take the time to learn where these are in the school.

 

Remember our privileged location is right on the banks of the Birrarung and any litter you leave behind when you finish your lunch can easily end up blowing into the river and out to sea where it may well harm wildlife.

New to recycling at MGC

 

Last week Ms McIntosh organised for a new stationery recycling system for MGC. This means that any empty whiteboard markers pens, highlighters, textas, or even any unwanted items such as used erasers, pencils, sharpeners, rulers and bulldogs clips can be dropped off at one of the recycle boxes around the school and we will arrange for them to be recycled or reused via a Melbourne based company called Green Collect. Green Collect are amazing and you can learn more about them here.