SUSTAINABILITY

REPS is committed to being a more sustainable and environmentally aware school, with a strong focus on reducing our waste production and better managing the waste we produce. Following on from winning a Coles Sustainability4Schools Buddy Bench for our soft plastics initiative and collecting, we have been partners for more than two years with the local social enterprise Reground for our soft plastics recycling. Reground collects the entire school’s soft plastics each month and delivers it to local recyclers who turn it back into the foundational oil used for plastic products.

This partnership has achieved the following:

• More than 150kg of soft plastics diverted from landfill

• More than 120kg of harmful greenhouse gas emissions avoided

• 97% of our soft plastics have been turned into plastoil, used to make new plastic products

Every classroom has a food scraps bin that is collected each week. After being chopped up by the students and left to do its magic for weeks, it is added to the school garden and wicking beds. More than 15kg of food is composted each week, and the students take great pride in ensuring no food ends up in landfill. We are so lucky to have a strong community of family and friends who volunteer their time and expertise to support our sustainability initiatives.