Indi from St Paul's
Make Beeswax Wraps
Beeswax wraps are a great alternative to wasteful cling wrap! Use this video to learn how to make these re-usable food wraps and teach your community!
Waste is a big issue in Australia! Waste can come in many forms: liquid waste, solid rubbish or litter, hazardous waste, organic waste such as food and recyclable waste.
Sadly, most of this waste ends up in landfill or disposed of in our local environments when more should be recycled or re-used. The most important thing we can do as EcoMarines is to ensure we refuse wasteful items altogether. Here are some facts:
In Queensland alone, each year, more than 20 football stadiums of waste is produced by people
Australia is improving with over half of waste produced in 2020 being sent for recycling!
This EcoMarines theme is a very important one! Your job is to use the challenges below to educate your school and community on how to reduce waste and to show your community ways to re-use wasteful items.
Uncle Bob tells the story of the Oodgeroo Trees (Paperbark trees)!
The video can be used to educate students on how we can learn about waste reduction from Traditional Custodians. Uncle Bob tells us how Oodgeroo Trees were used by Traditional Custodians many years ago. He also shares how a prominent Indigenous writer – Aunty Kathy Walker – got her name and her ties to this special tree.
Beeswax wraps are a great alternative to wasteful cling wrap! Use this video to learn how to make these re-usable food wraps and teach your community!
The EcoMarines students ran Wrapper Free Wednesday every week with a ‘Green Gnome” prize awarded to the class with the least amount of wrappers. The students sorted through the bins and collected data on the amount of wrappers left behind. After three years, they saw a decrease in wrappers being brought into the school per term! What great work!
Learn from the Payne Road EcoMarines about ways to sort out your schools’ waste. Find out tips to reduce, refuse, re-use and recycle! You can create your own educational video too, submit it on the EcoMarines TV YouTube Channel!
Cleveland State School EcoMarines ambassadors completed a litter audit and created a turtle out of the most common waste items they found. They showcased their artwork at their school’s annual ‘Arts Alive’ event to highlight to the wider community the impact litter has on our wildlife and environment.
