A SPECIAL guest visited St Anthony’s Primary School this week, teaching students the “magic” of recycling.
Students learnt about the bin system and how they can recycle in their own community.
As part of the Keep South Australia Beautiful (KESAB) Wipe Out Waste program, coordinator Joanne Hendrikx joined forces with the “WOW Wizard” on Monday and educated students and teachers about the importance of
waste management.
The statewide wow-program assists all sites, from pre-school to Year 12, to improve systems, reduce waste and recover resources in schools.
KESAB also monitors the progress and continually works towards improving resource recovery outcomes in schools, while encouraging and influencing people to adopt more sustainable behaviour.
Professional development sessions, bin material audits and a range of education resources are offered to support waste management.
As part of the presentation, Ms Hendrikx audited the school’s bins with students during lunchtime.
She then spoke about the bin system and, using the rubbish she had collected, demonstrated to students and teachers which bins particular rubbish should be placed in and how much waste they had.
Ms Hendrikx commented on the students’ lunchboxes, in particular how good St Anthony’s Primary School was with their “nude” food.
“A big focus as part of the program is ‘nude food’, which means using reusable containers instead of packages and reducing the amount of rubbish that needs to go in bins to be sent to landfill,” she said.
“Millicent has had a big focus on nude food for seven or eight years now and has been doing really well.
“We also focus on what sort of foods are going in lunchboxes because that is a third of what is going into bins.”
