Students from Holsworthy HS create the first Vegie Bed at the HCG in 2018
SCRAP has worked with hundreds of schools and other organisations on Sustainability issues but … it all begins at home as they say and we have always been active with our host school – Holsworthy HS and never more so than recently with the creation of the Holsworthy Community Garden on disused land next to the SCRAP Centre and within the school grounds.Working with Year 8 & 9 students, SCRAP devised and delivered the Table to Table: Organic Living Skills program through collaboration with staff and P&C, funding from Liverpool City Council and other sponsors. The students learned as they built the garden and transformed the paddock with chickens, vegies, composts, worm farms, a pond and went from organic waste conversion to soil to harvest and good nutrition in terms 3 & 4, 2018.
We also became the first school in Australia to host a Reverse Vending Machine (Return & Earn scheme) for public use and SCRAP is the school’s agent helping us continue our 29 year record of promoting recycling and waste reduction in the community.
Attached photo shows Costa Georgiadis launching the Community Garden with the participating students and the RVM in the background.
SCRAP’s Sustainable Schools Program began in 2000 when a consortium of partners came together to offer the EcoSnapshot Day in which schools undertook 5 audits and surveys covering – Solid Waste, Energy, Water, Biodiversity and Materials Use and Management in one day resulting in a comprehensive benchmarking of their environmental performance and great hands-on education
Australia is full of it but we’re losing it fast through destruction of habitat. We need to find that balance between using resources for our needs while maintaining the right of other species to exist. This is at the core of sustainable living and it is on a head on course with our modern system
The driest continent on Earth other than Antarctica should have its act together on water, don’t you agree? Well despite our obvious failures, in some ways,we do and KISSS (Kapillary Irrigation Sub-Surface System is one of those areas where we have wins. The system can save at least half the water needed for irrigation and
