Sustainable Schools

Did you know: "Australians throw away about 7,150 recyclable plastic bags a minute, with 429,000 recyclable plastic supermarket bags dumped into landfill every hour" (source: Clean Up Australia 2010). Explore the issue of waste and what you can do to tackle the problem, both in your home and at school!

New Partnership with Visual Feast Creations - Celebrating the Environment with Art!

CERES Incursions has recently partnered with Visual Feast Creations to deliver Recycled Art Workshops. These are also a perfect way to celebrate at your next Sustainability Event or Festival!

For more details please go to Visual Feast Creations- Recyled Art Flyer.  Bookings: Briony Tronson, Incursions Manager on 03 9389 0133 or email incursions@ceres.org.au

The 4R's- Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Learn about the benefits of embracing the 4R’s system- Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Explore waste in Port Phillip Bay- Dolphins and Fish Game

• What is a rubbish free lunch?  Is the food healthy for us? Is it healthy for the environment?

• By sorting through a replica bin, learn about the general composition of waste in our bins

• Includes a fun and educational Bin Relay Race!

• Learn which plastics can be recycled in your  local city council

• What is organic recycling?  Get to hold a worm!

3 – 6  Worm farms & composting

• Learn how schools can create, maintain and integrate organic waste recycling systems into an effective schoolyard development.

• Learn about which activities generate organic waste in a school and how we can reduce, reuse and recycle in the school grounds

• Explore the concept of worm farming and composting and how these systems can work within a school waste management and sustainability system.

• Investigate though interactive activities what worm farms and compost heaps need in order to be healthy and what these systems can give back to us.

• Discuss how students can manage their own organic waste and how this can have a positive impact on the environment.

Note: If you are planning on setting up a system in your school, teachers and students could start investigating the current resources available at school and home to work out an organic waste management system that will work for your school.

7 – 10 Waste Assessment

• Investigate how the world, Australia and more locally, your own school produces waste.

• Through a series of interactive activities, students will examine the existing waste systems in their school.

• Explore and invent effective ways to clean up their school and create a sustainable waste system.

• Students will be able to play an ACTIVE role in making their school environment a cleaner and greener space!

Note: This incursion will involve small groups of students to be walking around the school and requires access to the school’s skip bin, 2 of the closest stormwater drains and 1 or 2 digital cameras. Some activities require assistance from the school bursar, so this person should be notified of the activity session times.

Click here to book a CERES Waste Incursion

Bright Idea

Waste Free Lunch Challenge.
Do you think you can do it? When we come to your school for a waste incursion, get your students to take the challenge!!! For information please click here.