WASTE

In Victorian schools, the majority of waste is made up of food, paper and packaging, as well as glass, plastic and aluminium.

The Waste Module helps schools minimise waste sent to landfill through the operational practices of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’, and save on bills. In addition to saving money, there are many social and environmental advantages to reducing waste consumption, such as minimising our impact on the environment.

Building waste reduction into every aspect of school life not only benefits our environment, it also helps schools reduce costs and improves quality of life for the community. This is increasingly important for the reputation of schools as students, teachers and parents become aware of climate change and other environmental issues facing our communities.

WASTE AT MWPS

We have two waste streams at our school: landfill and recycling.

LANDFILL

  • In each classroom and office area we have a small 10 litre landfill bin. We do not use bin liners as they are a waste of plastic.

  • In the yard we have two landfill bins.

  • We have one 4.5m cubic metre landfill skip.

recycling

  • We have 28 recycling streams.

  • Click here to discover our 28 different streams.

Waste Reports

This graph shows where we set against the statewide benchmark target.

This shows our waste 2020 compared to our waste in 2019

This graph shows our waste history from 2009 to 2020