Sustainability

The Glad Recycling Competition ends on 26/06/25.

The first five boxes of soft plastics have been mailed to TerraCycle and I have three more big boxes ready to fill.

Just a friendly reminder that the container that the Sakata biscuits sit in is not a soft plastic - that container is simply recyclable so please don’t include it in your bags.

We have to check every bag to ensure that no other materials go to TerraCycle and get classed as contamination which means the whole load is destroyed.

The biggest restriction is nothing sticky can be recycled. For me, that is zooper dooper ice-blocks and single serve squeezy yogurt containers. See the photo below for examples.

The competition ends on the last day of this term and if we win, we score a small garden bed and worm farm combination plus a voucher to buy the worms.

Containers for Change

Do you have containers eligible to be recycled for 10cents? If you are not making your own claims, please send your empties to us. This term we have already had two 240L bins picked up and I am hoping to do the same at the end of the term.

If possible, please show your child how to prepare the container for recycling. Please remove the lid, straw and any liquid as we still are receiving containers with all of these.

Gardening Club

Our new plants are growing and it is exciting to see strawberry flowers with little strawberries forming in the middle. Gardening club is also using worm wee to fertilise all our produce and it won’t be long before we have to remove the old bean plants and replant new seedlings. 

Feed the Worms, Friday

Our worms are in need of food, so “Feed the Worms, Friday” has become an exciting program thought up by our young team. Help our worms out by sending in a small bag of food scraps every Friday. The school holidays are quickly approaching so we will need to set the worms up for the holiday period. 

Karen Kent

Year 5/6 Teacher and Sustability Club Co-ordinator