Sustainability and Agriculture
Aitken College – ResourceSmart Schools Annual Report 2022
ResourceSmart Schools is a Victorian Government initiative that will help our school embed sustainability in our curriculum, our campus operations and in our community. Aitken College is doing a great job in taking action to minimise waste, save energy and water, promote biodiversity and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. We are working hard to try and achieve 5 stars.
Since starting our schools ResourceSmart Journey in January 2008 our school has achieved the following:
Usage report
Resources | Benchmark (per student) | Usage | Currently meeting or below benchmark | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baselined on | Baseline year per student | Current Year 2022 total | Current Year 2022 per student | |||
| Biodiversity | >75 | 2008 | 23 | 85 | - | Y |
| Electricity* | 400 kWh | Dec - 2007 | 467.04 kWh | 622,870 kWh | 440.5 kWh | N |
| Generation | N/A | Dec - 2007 | 0 kWh | 5,375 kWh | 3.8 kWh | - |
| Landfill | 0.3 m3 | Dec - 2007 | 0.96 m3 | 481 m3 | 0.34 m3 | N |
| LPG | N/A | Dec - 2007 | 11.52 L | 11,948 L | 8.45 L | - |
| Natural gas | N/A | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - |
| Paper | N/A | Dec - 2007 | 2.88 ream | 3,162 ream | 2.24 ream | - |
| Recycling | N/A | Dec - 2007 | 0.24 m3 | 63 m3 | 0.04 m3 | - |
| Water | 4 kL | Dec - 2007 | 0.12 kL | 5,478 kL | 3.87 kL | Y |
*There has been an increase in electricity consumption due to the use of air purifiers in classrooms and offices and building works.
Cost savings
Resources | Cost (Annual Total) | Cost (per student) | Savings | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline year | Current Year | Baseline year | Current Year | Current $ Total | Current $ Per Student | |
| Electricity | $152,394 | $143,735 | $108 | $102 | increased savings by $8,659 | increased savings by $6 |
| Landfill | $54,342 | $19,252 | $39 | $14 | increased savings by $35,090 | increased savings by $25 |
| LPG | $26,068 | $19,120 | $19 | $14 | increased savings by $6,948 | increased savings by $5 |
| Paper | $19,515 | $15,153 | $14 | $11 | increased savings by $4,362 | increased savings by $3 |
| Recycling | $6,988 | $1,292 | $5 | $1 | increased savings by $5,696 | increased savings by $4 |
| Water | $517 | $16,668 | $1 | $12 | increased costs by $16,151 | increased costs by $11 |
Since starting of the baseline year, our school saved a total of $565,414.71 across all resources, where the baseline costs are based on the selected year unit costs per resource.
Mr Dwayne Ganci
Sustainability Coordinator