A number of activities were held across the College from 22 to 26 July to mark Sustainability Week. The week’s program included a range of engaging events that champion environmentally friendly practices and culminated with the national tree planting day today.
Activities included:
- collecting bottle caps from each year level to make a colourful wall display for a dark corridor in the Year 7 area
- repurposing egg cartons as containers to grow flowers
- preapring nude lunches at home, encouraging students to cut down on packaging and food wrapping by bringing their food in a simple lunchbox
- learning about the sustainable practices used every day on the College farm
- selling old for new at a second hand clothing and bric-a-brac stall in the CSYMA lounge and
- a mass tree planting which was undertaken by the Year 7 students on an area of the College near the cricket pitches.
We would like to extend a very big thank you to: Mrs Marie Prusac and the Year 7 teachers who helped with the tree planting over the course of the week; the maintenance team Mr Mick Hill and Mr Andy Cumberford; MrTim Thompson who introduced students to the goats and the work on the College farm; and Ms Janet Barr and Mr David Banfield who all contributed towards the success of the week.
Hannah Steel our Environment Prefect has been doing an exceptional job over the course of the year with the variety of activities she has facilitated. Here is Hannah's review of Sustainability Week below:
As the Environment Group of 2019, over the course of this week we have tried to make the MLMC community more aware of the impact we have on the environment and to inspire students to use the most of every material that they have.
One of the projects that we have been running to support our goal this week has been the creation of a spectacular bottle cap wall. Students got involved by fixing bottle caps to the art wall, while also participating in the year level Competition of collecting the most bottle caps.
Throughout the week we also had a plant stall as well as a showing of MLMC's baby goats so that students could learn about the sustainable practices on the College farm. We also planted 200 hundred native trees on the College grounds!
In the Youth Ministry lounge they hosted an informative session about what can and can’t be recycled. Many students were very surprised to learn that shopping receipts and wrapping paper cannot be recycled due to its glossy coating and pizza boxes due to grease contaminating the paper.
Watch this space as we continue the bottle-cap wall over the course of the next couple of weeks. Also we have started a new project which involves building a wine bottle structure out of grapevine cuttings which will be on display at the MLMC 2019 Wine Launch.
None of this would be possible without the support of Mr Feher, Mr Thompson and the maintenance team.
