KESAB has worked closely with education sites across Tea Tree Gully Council through our incursion and excursion opportunities and linking with NRM and Wipe Out Waste programs.
In particular, Golden Grove High School has introduced 17 bin banks across the campus and is successfully collecting clean drink containers and removing food from the waste bin to a bin for food collection. A recent bin materials audit showed that they have improved their diversion from landfill by 33% which is a great result. A separate audit of their paper stream identified opportunities to reduce their paper usage and this will be part of their Site Environmental Management Plan (SEMP) into the future.
The school is a model for others in the region and has hosted professional development training and sharing session for students with an environmental focus and grounds staff from other Tea Tree Gully high schools. Recently Golden Grove High School received an award from KESAB for Best Practice Secondary School Resource Separation System. Receiving this award recognises the commitment that Golden Grove High School has towards sustainability on a local and global scale.
