Schools across the Bega Valley Shire are offered the opportunity to participate in the ‘Let’s get it Sorted’ waste education program at their school. The program is run by the Bournda Environmental Education Centre and is fully funded by the Bega Valley Shire Council.

The program includes –

• two waste audits of playground rubbish bins (before and after)

• student / teacher support to create an action plan

• provision of recycling and green waste bins to the school

• tour of the Central Waste Facility and the Merimbula Organics Processing Facility

• ongoing support by BEEC

The program helps students to re-think what they call ‘waste’ and empowers them to be the change makers at their school. The aim of the program is to reduce the amount of waste that schools send to landfill and to help educate school communities about the issues surrounding waste and its management.

This program has been successfully run in schools since 2019.