Video Competition

Throughout the year, eight schools from the different East Waste councils have been involved with KESAB’s East Waste Schools Program. This program aims to support schools in their sustainability and waste management journey. The 2024 program focus was food waste reduction and diversion.

Each school was asked to create a short video which creatively highlights their learnings from the program.

The key was to show why food waste is a problem, how it can be addressed, and what the outcomes are.

Winner Announced

Congratulations to the Winner of the Video Competition: St Francis of Assisi School and Runner Up: Magill School!

Well done to all schools involved.

Important points

KESAB wishes to reinforce the following important points (correct as of October 2024):

Organics

Organic waste from your green bin is taken to a composting facility to be turned into nutrient-rich compost.

‘If it grows, in green it goes’ refers to all food and garden organics, as well as paper and cardboard items like paper towel and tissues.

There is now a new PLA Bioplastic used for food containers – look for the label.

Textiles are not currently compostable.

Recycling

Recycling is the process of reprocessing materials into new products.

It is a commodity market which can currently manage household paper/cardboard, metals, glass and hard plastics (which return to their shape when scrunched).

These materials must be relatively clean (empty and dry) and placed loose into your yellow bin.

Items must be larger than a tennis ball to be handled by recycling machinery.

Landfill

Landfill is burying materials in the ground.

It is an anaerobic environment that does not allow organic materials to compost, instead they putresce and create methane.

This is the least desirable waste stream as it’s expensive financially, socially and environmentally.

We encourage you to refer to the whichbin website for area specific information.