zero+waste

 **ZERO WASTE** We at St Teresa's School are aiming for zero waste. We know this will be a long process but the plan is to cut down on the excess paper we use, cut down on on packaging in our lunch boxes and think about the environment and our impact on it. We have already started the process of thinking about the amount of paper we use in the classroom. We now use both sides of the paper and only shred when the paper cannot be used for anything else. A phonecall to Invercargil City Council by our envirogroup member Harrison, resulted in us now having a basic household waste bin and a green recycling bucket each week instead of the skip which used to be emptied a LOT, now we just put the bins out every week for the binmen. We have a few bins in each class now where we separate the plastics, food waste, compostable items and paper into a different bin. We are attempting to educate the parents about packaging for lunchboxes and coming up with alternatives for plastic and glad wrap.