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Recycle resources between Regis and Senior school eg timber scraps from the TAS department for Regis STEM, Art departments.

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To reduce the amount of paper mail to the college.  Reduce the amount of junk mail, duplicate mail and residents mail that could be sent electronically.

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Accounts Payable process go paperless

Native landscaping around the college - Native and not introduced plants and flowers that need more water, pruning and fertilizing this would help our local animal and insect life/ environment

A place where staff can post pictures to show the School community about what they are doing (pictures) at home and outside the college

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- think globally - act locally: celebrate and nurture the beautiful environment we have
- engaging student leaders - a group with a specific focus
- look at cultural change rather than single  interventions
- it was understood why, but picking up rubbish as a punishment is problematic re. mindset and culture. How could we do this differently?
- shared responsibility
- modelling by our habits
- consider outreach opportunities like landcare

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Collect bread clips from the Ref for the bread clip wheelchair charity https://ozbreadtagsforwheelchairs.org.au/

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We collect plastic bread tags nationally in Australia. The tags are recycled locally, raising funds to buy wheelchairs for disadvantaged people, mainly in South Africa.

We collect only plastic bread tags, not cardboard tags or N95 mask clips.

Want to collect bread tags for us?

It's easy - collect bread tags and drop them off at any of our collection points, or post them to us. See some of our collectors in action.

Why not go the next step - get a container, print some signage from our Downloads page and get collecting at your work, school, child care centre, local cafe, hospital, retirement village, nursing home, church, sports club or community centre. Read more ...

To find your closest collection point:
- download the list of collection points (PDF) or
- click on the map below, then zoom in to your area and click on the blue
map pins to see the details

Want to host a collection point?

Contact us to register as a collection point where the public can drop their bread tags. You'll appear on our map so collectors can find you, and we'll ask you to get the tags to a central collection point in your nearest capital city. Read more .....

What about transport?

Transport of bread tags is always a challenge for us. We have three generous transport companies that help us : HF Dicker and Son, DGI Global and Personalised Freight Solutions - read about it here.

But we always need more help shifting tags. If you are are planning a trip to Adelaide from Melbourne or regional SA, VIC or NSW, and have room for a couple of boxes, please get in touch.

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We collect plastic bread tags nationally in Australia. The tags are recycled locally, raising funds to buy wheelchairs for disadvantaged people, mainly in South Africa. It's easy - collect bread tags and drop them off at any of our collection points, or post them to us. See some of our collectors in action.

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Sitting the park with earphones to hear about the history of the area and what when on. This made you want to learn more.
Using our riverside: where we are at and what we are doing.
Year 9 Challenge: Look at the micro plastics.
give good practical examples and the use of outdoor areas. help with creative writing.
The College's approach to the environment. continue to have solar panels fitting to other buildings.
have a 'meat free' Monday.
Getting students respecting the recycling bins.
Kids to be made aware of the impact of the digital footprints.
have parents to be on board to support their kids with caring for the enivornment.

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Please adopt in House system particularly on House Meetings.
Even in your own House, then drop off to school
Bring plastic lids in separately - we have scope to recycle these too!

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Boys involved in the grounds and gardens

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Boys involved in the grounds and gardens

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If we had a way to engage the boys in the maintaining and developing the gardens/grounds they could take more stewardship of them. Growing vegetables and fruit perhaps too?

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Science Faculty - connect to the Lane Cove River. Monitor oveer the year and see the environmental changes that occur.
Its a beautiful natural element we are connected to but we don't acknowledge.

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reduce waste from college ref and student canteen

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When Yr 7 RE are asked what is already in place, they. don't know. We could highlight what SIC already does so they can build on these - what is possible?

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Set up a location for Soft plastic recycling.

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The current rubbish level is tolerated and a direct and sustained focus on this would be an important foundational start

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minimising ALL COLOUR document printing
First Nation development of story board reducing waste

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TAS - teaching agriiculture in the curriculum - highlight food consumptuon and production and impacts on the world.
Talk about effective modes of production eg Netherlands green house.

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Also have programs and initiatives set up at Regis as well as the senior campus.

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Laminating posters that are only used for one day, one event or a month.
This poster will be around well beyond our lives....it is plastic

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Soft plastics recycling bin somewhere at the College

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Soft plastics recycling bin somewhere at the College

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What happens after we put rubbish in the bin?
Could our House Captains and student leaders represent these ideas, talking about the implications of plastic use and disposal etc?

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A button on InsideView informing where to go to recycle things like batteries, cosmetic bottles, etc.

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-Reduce use of plastic and consumables
-Use things like keep cups for staff
-Water stations (do we still have them?)
-Covid has increased single-use objects
-Bring your own plate/cup/tupperware, reinforce that
-Third yard, more vegetation (planter boxes etc) to replace the lost trees and gardens
-Community garden (formalise as a co-curricular activity), staff and student participation
-Composting at school
-Student-driven compost program
-Coffee pod recycling
-Educate and empower the students and staff
-Correct use of bins
-Recycling properly
-We need a cultural shift, they must look after their own environment and see the link between the school environment and the world environment
-Research into what other schools are doing, what programs work elsewhere
-Reduce landfill as much as possible
-Better signage on the bins (graphics)
-Environment Club needs to be promoted further/bigger profile

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Plastic use: battle between individual and larger changes. Collectively we have a large voice, Advocacy campaigning for larger corporations to improve their environmental/plastic use. Less packaging in plastic.
Show the wider community our initiatives, Saturday sport. Canteen could be non-plastic.
Change is difficult.
As an organisation, we buy so much. Can we start insisting that we don't want plastic packaging. As a purchaser we could put pressure on suppliers.
Uniform - is it sustainably made? Recycled clothing.
Textbooks - recycling, can this be improved?
We print less. Tension between reading a physical copy vs reading onscreen. Be more respectful of text.
Regis, different coloured bins for recycling. Educate the boys where recycling should go. Different councils have different coloured bins.

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Including a sustainability day in Year 9 Challenge
eg. beach clean up - all the masks!

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- Keep it simple e.g remind when things come from e.g. paper towels, running water
- Student led initiatives work best
- Encourage naked lunches and limit packaging on food mentors days (no packaging) - difficult during COVID
- Get statistics and feedback to students (e.g. tonnes of waste)
- recycle school food waste and use as fertiliser (some schools do this. However, may be costly). Acknowledge Chatwells does this with ref food waste
-education on what goes into what bins. Teachers to help when on duty. Students could help

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The three bins - what goes where.
So that it isn't contaminated

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Greater awareness for students.
- ie how much waste do we generate on campus.

YR12 Play - link to objectives of caring for common home.

Boarding - reusable bags - links to greater awareness for students.

YR12 TAS - project linked to and reflection of sustainability, linked to materials used.

YR11 Math - fuel consumption - shifting cost component to also focus on sustainability - ie hybrid car and reduction of pollution.

Reusing resources before recycling.
Greater access to recycling bins.

Accountability
- greater consequences for litter on the
playground.
- rewards for positive actions.

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In my teaching, more outside experiences, reflecting, engaging .. explicitly reflecting on the experience.

During Mentor times - conscious reflecting on rubbish, self appearance

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*Environmental stewardship - habit and action - an awareness of the individual's actions. Capturing ideas - faith, creativity.
*How young people can influence policy and decision making - knowing the right course of action - important for the future leaders.
*Not aligning ourselves to a political party when discussing/caring for the environment.
*Pastoral care level - "it's not all about me" - how can we help others and the environment.
*Ownership for the future/environment, responsibility for our school grounds. Hold the students to their responsibilities.
*Keystone - God is in everything - our actions, thoughts, decisions etc. Christian perspective.
*Teach students re other peoples/countries are responding to caring for the environment.
*Planting of native plants around Riverview - a bush tucker garden

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- Advocacy, students need to be politically aware to see how politicians vote on environmental issues.
- Voting is important so you are able to shape policies in the future based on the politicians' views.
- Facilitating and encouraging the boys to be more compassionate and open about the environmental impact they have.  We need to make it applicable for the boys so they are able to relate and become passionate about their common home.
- Boys need to develop a greater empathy to their impact on the environment, must help them make a connection and make it more real for them by being aware of their impact. Us using the earth, has an impact on the environment.
- More people visiting the Hot Potato Shop.
- We should also provide the boys with ways to make a difference in caring for our common home.
- A practical way would be implementing a food waste bin at school and the compost to be used in the school.
- Ensuring the yards are clean but also the rivers, could the boys create a solution maybe in science. This will put in on them and they can be more passionate and take ownership.
- Maybe a basketball hoop over a bin? incorporating that into a Y9 challenge?
- A co-curriculum enviro group? they can be policing this in the yards. Using the house environmental captain

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Reduce use of laminating and excess printing
Service linked to local landcare and environmental projects
Reduce student use of rubbish - zero waste policy etc (rubbish in 3rd yard) Mindful rubbish disposal
School wide awareness across staff and ongoing commitment
Changing the culture to one of reuse and recycle - lunch time dedicated section to collection of rubbish
Value and ownership of belief in this area - not a punishment rather a pleasure in taking care of the land
Yr 12 leadership to assist in this "caring for our common home" - good for modelling to younger kids
Gardens and farming used - worm farms and ownership given to the students

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Would it be useful to reestablish an student environment officer to look for opportunities to change College practice to reduce our impact and set a positive example for other students as a peer

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More opportunities for students to hear from Kaleb (like Year 9 Challenge day) and team about the history of this land and in turn generate responsibility for the land.

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Bins - different colours can be disregarded. Talking to the boys and giving them a better understanding.
Could we have a visual representation of landfill that we create as a community - represented graphically.
Regis where going to empty them and see if it can be reduced.

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- Incorporate a 'Caring for our Common Home' with service (and perhaps even an educational trip)
- Earth & Environmental course
- Promote programmes such as Operation Wallacea where the boys can engage in research which contributes to published papers on Biodiversity, environmental issues etc
- Regis gardens and action research by students
- Recycling clothing initiatives - link it to the curriculum (Magis/Geog)
- Research on how the school is currently doing (e.e. how recycling bins are used etc)

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'Nude' food similar to lots of primary schools

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'Nude' food similar to lots of primary schools

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Solutions for responsible care for the environment in our yard:
Assign leaders to encourage students to pick up rubbish at the end of lunch. More effective coming from Senior students than teachers.

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greater use of digital products
reduce COLOURED production of documents

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Introduce compost bins in playground spaces.

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The amount of waste in booklets, extras.
Reduce pages, booklets

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A college effort to ensure that the rubbish and recycling bins are used correctly

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A college effort to ensure that the rubbish and recycling bins are used correctly

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- Highlight textile waste - run a clothing drive of donations for Threads Together

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If we give accurate feedback re behaviours, stating high expectations.

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Set achievable goals for staff and students to take on. Continue to call on Houses to take on tasks and encourage some healthy competition between Houses

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More than just one day

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Start in the school environment
-how we treat classrooms
-outside areas
-being aware of those around them

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Room 8 collection point for soft plastics eg bags

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Room 8 collection point for soft plastics eg bags

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share lifts and travel
explore more renewable and sustainable products :  more solar panels
promote sustainable food packaging
Encourage staff to use reusable products in the ref

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Reduce the number of hard copy textbooks

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Educate parents on how to reduce plastic waste in lunchboxes.

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Could we grow our own vegetables and fruit - Would the Boarding students be interested in taking on some of the responsibility?

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Cleaning up any waterways on Duke of Ed camps

What is our College's Ink/Paper Footprint?  Moving towards digital publications...

Laminating less posters

Move away towards textbooks (History department)...get the online version instead.

Mentor group suggestion - can we have an inter-house competition to come up with some solutions for plastic usage?

Canteen uses a lot of plastics....can we encourage students to recycle plastics from lunch?  A reward system perhaps??

Encourage environmental captains to drive competition in the school

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Continue Yr 9 Challenge experiences beyond that small window. 

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Continue Yr 9 Challenge experiences beyond that small window. 

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SID activities that could engage the students with the local school environment or wider Lane Cove environment 

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SID activities that could engage the students with the local school environment or wider Lane Cove environment 

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More promotion of return and earn around the school.

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-reduce printing of posters, place on e-boards instead
- encourage Return & Earn scheme
- minimise daily waste, packaging, wrappers

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How can we instill care of our school environment (putting rubbish in the bin etc) for our students?

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Add environmental stewardship to immersions with the idea of educating our boys on local environmental impacts for the communities we visit. Eg, global warming in Micronesia

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Pride in self.. uniform,
Self care!
Respect of self

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recycle paper
use more renewable resources
aware of individual carbon footprint
Stop laminating..!

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Reduce plastic: bring back chalk and blackboard.

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Get rid of laminating

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So much disrespect for how our environment is left strewn with rubbish.
"What am I doing to make it better?" .. encourage this care and consciousness in the boys, rather than leaving it to the army of cleaners!

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Use of Rose Garden ... stunning spot for music, drama, prayer, reflection

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More tracks giving more access to the beauty of this place.