Rubbish+Free+Lunch+Challenge

WE CAN DO IT in 2010 In 2009 we achieved excellent results cutting our 6 kg of rubbish on a normal day to 300 grams during the RFL day so in 2010 we needed to work even harder to improve and sustain better management of our waste by applying the 3Rs.

media type="file" key="2009 rubbish free lunch.mov" width="328" height="328" align="left" MORELAND Primary School Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge On Wednesday, 21st July, students took part in the Australia wide, Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge. The Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Gavin Jennings, visited the school on Tuesday, 27th July to have lunch with our students and learn about our rubbish reduction strategies. He was joined by Jane Garrett, Local Member for Brunswick. Click onto this movie to see our 2009 results Press release: As part of the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge in Victorian schools held on 21st July 2010, the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Gavin Jennings, visited Moreland Primary School to have lunch with the students and learn about the school's rubbish reduction strategies. Jane Garrett, Local Candidate for Brunswick and Anita Roper, CEO Sustainability Victoria, joined him.

Moreland Primary School students i.e. the Moreland Environmental Protection Activators (MEPA) and Young Leaders representatives explained how they encourage students to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink. All students at Moreland Primary School have been trying to reduce the amount of waste generated in their school. Classroom programs teach students to make better choices about their health and remind students to eat "Nude Food" such as fruit and vegetables, which besides being healthier require no rubbish or packaging. The food scraps are being collected by each grade and composted. The other benefit for the school has been a cleaner yard and less junk food in lunch boxes. Lisa Benn, Resource Smart Education Program Manager from Sustainability Victoria said, “ Your school is truly a role model to other schools in your leadership of Resource Smart AuSSI Vic and the sustainable practices that you demonstrated today were obviously embedded in the school philosophy.” Anita Roper, CEO Sustainability Victoria was so impressed with the MEPA team, their knowledge and commitment to sustainability, that she has invited the MEPA leaders to present to Sustainability Victoria and showcase a Resource Smart school. “Our students have changed their habits at school and this is now having an impact on their family’s practices” said Principal John Williams. Here are our Rubbish Free Lunch results for 2010. ** Normal Day Challenge Day ** **rubbish ** || ** Weight of ** **rubbish ** ||  These graphs show the results from each team. = The NO WRAPPERS RAPPER sang his special song about the 3Rs for the Minister: = He first performed his famous song ‘No wrappers means no litter” at assembly for World Environment Day in June. No wrappers in lunch boxes means that we can keep our yard litter free. Here are the lyrics to his song. WHEN U FIND RUBBISH ON THE FLOOR U PICK IT UP WHEN IT’S DROPPED PICK IT UP WHEN IT’S DROPPED, IF U DON’T KNOW WERE TO PUT IT, U PUT IT IN THE BIN PUT IT IN THE BIN.
 * ** Grades ** || ** Total pieces of rubbish ** || **Weight of rubbish ** || ** Total pieces of **
 * ** P/1 ** || ** 44 ** || **434 **grams || ** 7 ** || ** 70 ** grams ||
 * ** 1 /2 ** || ** 55 ** || **275 **grams || ** 9 ** || ** 54 ** grams ||
 * ** 3 /4 ** || ** 50 ** || **589 **grams || ** 0 ** || ** 0 ** grams ||
 * ** 5/6 ** || ** 54 ** || **530 **<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">grams || ** 4 ** || ** 8 ** grams ||
 * ** Total ** || ** 203 ** || **<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">1.828kg ** || ** 20 ** || ** 132 grams ** ||

SO FIRSTLY WE GO THROUGH THE 3RS - REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE, REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE THE AMOUNT OF PAPER U USE… PAPER U USE- REDUCE REUSE A PLASTIC BOTTLE U BOUGHT FROM THE SHOP B..BOUGHT FROM THE SHOP RECYCLE -RECYCLE A TIN CAN AND PUT IT IN THE RECYCLING BIN, AND IT CAN BE USED AGAIN AS A SOFT DRINK… AS A SOFT DRINK CAN. SO NOW U KNOW THE 3RS, NOW U CAN REMEMBER - STAY GREEN!!

All students at Moreland Primary School have been trying to reduce the amount of waste generated in our school. Classroom programs teach students to make better choices about their health and remind students to eat “Nude Food” such as fruit and vegetables, which, besides being healthier, require no rubbish or packaging. The food scraps are being collected by each grade and composted. The other benefit for the school has been a cleaner yard with fewer wrappers and less junk food in lunch boxes. __**OUR AIMS**__ We want to make Moreland Primary School(MPS) and our community a more pleasant place to live, work and play. • Minimise and recycle our daily waste • Save trees by using both sides of paper and reduce the amount of paper in the school by reusing before the recycle bin • Become a Waste Wise School • Send all food waste to a compost bin to reduce waste to landfill. • Reduce cost of ‘skip’ rubbish pick-up • Mulch garden waste and use on gardens • Include students and staff in the process of becoming a Waste Wise School and Resource Smart Sustainable school. • Promotion of Rubbish Free Lunches (RFL) and healthy eating including Nude food practices through assemblies and newsletter • Monitors collect food scraps daily and transfer it to the compost bin • Classes to dispose of paper into recycle bins with VISY pick up • Promote the re-use principle of paper in the classroom, staff room and office areas • To keep rubbish in one area- eat inside at lunch-times; create a designated outdoor eating area at recess; promote “no wrappers” in the yard. • ‘Nude Food’/ rubbish free lunch & play lunch promotion • Special lunch, Rubbish free lunch days to encourage waste wise lunch boxes This site has information about littering. http://www.litter.vic.gov.au/www/html/141-why-do-people-litter.asp
 * Parents, please put food and drinks in containers that students can take home. We want rubbish free lunch boxes.**
 * The** ** objectives of our waste policy are to: **
 * Implementation practices to reduce waste include: **
 * __LITTERING INFORMATION__**

2010 Rubbish Free lunch Challenge When: Wednesday, 21st July To promote the RFL day, we will collect all of the food wrappings and containers from student’s lunches on Wednesday 14th July and some grade 5/6 students will analyse each grade’s waste practices and prepare a waste management plan. At assembly, before the RFLC day, we will described each grades’ practices and which class team was the worst at generating rubbish and which learning team was the best at reducing rubbish. We will need to remind students what to do to reduce waste. Reusable plastic lunch containers need to be encouraged and we need to remind students to bring fruit and other rubbish-free snacks. We wanted ZERO rubbish in lunch boxes. The MEPA team visited classrooms to encourage students to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink. Sorting the collected lunch rubbish for pre rubbish free lunch data. =**Sorting the lunch rubbish was a smelly and not too pleasant job but the MEPA ( Moreland Environmental Protection Activators) did the job with enthusiasm.**=

To learn more about our MEPA members and their great work please read these articles.

== =The students in Grade 5/6 also decided to audit all the rubbish in the school yard and the streets surrounding the school.= = =


 * ** AUDIT OF RUBBISH IN AND AROUND MORELAND PRIMARY SCHOOL- Thursday, 15th July ** ||
 * ** Group ** || ** Area audited ** || **Amount of rubbish** |||| ** Mostly ** || ======% of rubbish======
 * ** Group ** || ** Area audited ** || **Amount of rubbish** |||| ** Mostly ** || ======% of rubbish======

in that area
|| The grade 5/6 students have continued their Rubbish Free Lunch activities with a science focus on landfills and geology. We want to understand how the Earth was formed and how our polluting the land affects our planet.
 * 1. || Library courtyard || 23 || Plastic food wrap || =**13**= || 57% ||
 * 2. || Gardens || 64 || Plastic food wrap || 23 || 34% ||
 * 3. || Asphalt b/t buildings || 29 || Food || 15 || 52% ||
 * 4. || Adventure playground || 48 || Sweet wrappers || 27 || 56% ||
 * 5. || Grass || 22 || Sweet wrappers || 7 || 32% ||
 * 6. || Fence-Moreland Rd || 24 || Plastic bags || 6 || 24% ||
 * 7. || Fence-Blair St. || 24 || Dip containers || 4 || 17% ||
 * 8. || Fence-Houses || 25 || Sweet wrappers || 6 || 24% ||
 * 9. || Astroturf playground || 28 || Sweet wrappers || 11 || 40% ||
 * 10. || Moreland Road || 80 || Cigarettes || 30 || 38% ||
 * 11. || De Carle Street || 35 || Cigarettes || 10 || 29% ||
 * 12 || Blair Street || 64 || Broken glass || 15 || 23% ||
 * || TOTAL rubbish collected || 466 ||  ||   ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">The students at Moreland understand what happens to the rubbish after it has been thrown away. The 5/6 students went to Darebin Parklands, which is a former landfill. For the RFLunch day each grade got back the rubbish they had from their lunches. The Junior School Council reps from each grade worked with the 5/6 students to make their own mini-landfills. We realise that we are running out of room for all our landfill rubbish and that the rubbish causes green house gases, which pollute our atmosphere. Now, we bring healthy nude food lunches to school and help the environment by reducing the rubbish at our school.

= At Darebin Parklands we helped the Rangers plant hundreds of trees because it was National Tree Planting Day. =