Grade three and four students Gemma, Alana, Kelly, Kirsty and Anastazya helped reduce the amount of rubbish at Tooradin Primary School. Picture: Stewart Chambers.
TOORADIN students helped the environment last week by ridding their school of rubbish.
Students at Tooradin Primary School held a successful rubbish-free lunch day last Wednesday, 1 August.
The kids managed a total of just one kilogram of rubbish on the day, compared with 4.5 kilograms the previous week.
Student Anastazya said she saved rubbish by using zip lock bags so she could then take home and reuse them.
Alana brought more fruit and less wrappers while Kirsty put her food in a container so she didn’t have any rubbish at all.
Teacher Sue Tobin congratulated Grade 5/6F in a special way for being the only grade at the school to have no rubbish in their lunch boxes.
Ms Tobin said the school continued to reduce waste by improving its recycling processes, with four bins in each classroom for paper products, recycling containers, food scraps and rubbish.
“Our goal last year was to reduce the emptying of the dumpmaster from every two weeks to three weeks,” she said. “We have now achieved that, so well done to everyone.”
