Enviro+Practices



** ABS Enviro Practices ** //**Waste Management**// **Classroom Bin Management.**Classroom teachers appoint bin monitors to oversee the organisation of student rubbish. Students are trained to classify their own rubbish and encouraged to pick up litter. Teachers encourage students to clean their desks out and keep their classrooms neat and organized. The area near the outside classroom door is kept litter free. Teachers are role models and actively encourage students to follow the ABS Care Code ie to keep our school grounds free of litter, respect the environment.

**Yoghurt Pottles/Gladwrap** Students are encouraged to use containers to bring yoghurt for their lunches. Students are discouraged from bringing gladwrap to school.

**Turquoise bin**.- This is for recyclable rubbish ie. paper, card, newspaper, cleaned yoghurt pottles, plastic bottles, glass, items for kerbside recycling. Paper and light card is secured in New World, Countdown or Warehouse plastic bags. On a Wednesday morning before school students take the class turquoise bin to the Short Street steps. This bin is collected by the turquoise bin monitor later in the day. Students are encouraged to bring plastic bags to school so that each class has a stock pile.

**Miscellaneous bin.-**This is for plastic rubbish collected in the playground, pencil sharpenings, non bio degradable items. (No paper or card.) This bin is emptied at **2.45**pm into the skippy bin each day.

**Compost bin.** This is for fruit scraps. Place a small white bucket in your dark green bin and also a small container for orange peels. Encourage students to classify. Ie citrus fruit peelings in one container, apples cores, pears, bananas, bread, biscuits in the other. (NO paper, card or miscellaneous rubbish.)This bin is emptied carefully into the large bins by the lunch area at **2.45pm daily.**

**Heavy cardboard.**This is flattened and placed in the cardboard skip by the school coal burner.-Caretakers Area.

**Aluminium cans**These are placed in the cage by the caretakers shed to be recycled.

**Wood** Tree branches are left on the caretakers/school trailer. Planks/off cuts left by the caretakers garage to be chipped for gardens.

**Worm farming.**Wastebusters teach yr 3/4 students to maintain the worm farms, at the end of Room 9. Each day food scraps are sorted by Room 15 students. Banana skins and pears are placed into the worm farms. Water is poured……1/2 litres per week into the top of the worm farm. Worm fertiliser is gathered, bottled and sold at $1 per 3 litre container C/- Enviro team. Sharon/Anita from Wastebusters and Mr Hooper check the worm farms. **Compost** Biodegradable items are added to the school compost ie fruit, orange peelings and vegetable skins, leaves. The compost is by the garage at the top of the western field.

**//School Gardens//** **Organic garden.**The Enviro team manage four raised beds. Ie vegetable and a herb garden.An apple tree and four peach trees are maintained in this area. Mr Hooper and/or Bill the Caretaker have attachments and hoses for summer irrigation. Soil is transferred from the compost to enrich the gardens in spring. Manure is also added.

**Potato patch** Behind Room 12 potatoes are grown from August to May. Leaves are piled up in autumn. Hay is added early in winter. Soil from this plot is used in the organic gardens and some of the flower gardens ie Junior walkway, Short Street steps

**Rock Garden** Enviro team students designed, created and maintain the rock garden area by Rooms 9,10,11. A selection of grasses and sub alpines flourish. Students are allowed to walk on the pathways through this garden.

**The Native Nursery** A nursery, between Room 9 & 10, is maintained by Enviro team members. A selection of small natives are grown free from frosts and the elements. These are planted out during spring or autumn Enviro working bees.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Birdhouse Area** Seven birdhouses are a feature of the garden beside Room 2. Students do not walk through this garden. Room 15 students feed the bird tables at 2.45 each day. Bread, buns, apple cores, biscuits, most eatable lunch scraps. No orange peels - these go to the compost. Wax eyes, fantails, sparrows, blackbirds visit the birdtables.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Junior Walkway Garden** This is maintained by the Junior Syndicate ie Yrs 0-4. The Enviro team also maintain these gardens.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Short Street Steps Garden.** This garden was created by Room 3 and is maintained by Area 2.

<span class="style7" style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Native Gardens by R14, 15, 5.** These were created and will be maintained by Area 2.