Sustainability At Oatlands

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ResourceSmart Schools

Our Commitment to Sustainability
At Oatlands Primary School, we strive to inspire our whole school community to connect with the environment and make a positive contribution to sustainability at school, home and beyond.

Oatlands aims to reduce our schools footprint through adopting sustainable practices in our everyday operations.

We will achieve this by continuing to integrate sustainability into many learning areas and instilling a sense of ownership and pride in improving the school environment.

We will lead the community by demonstrating exemplary practices in waste management, alter and energy usage, and continue to develop the school grounds to improve biodiversity.

We are in partnership with CERES to complete the ResourceSmart Schools Program.

About ResourceSmart Schools

ResourceSmart Schools is an award-winning Victorian Government program that assists schools to embed sustainability in everything they do.

The ResourceSmart Schools program provides practical support to schools to reduce resource use, make cost savings, integrate sustainability into the curriculum and share learnings beyond the school gate.

Since 2008, more than 1,400 schools have participated in the program. Together, they have:

  • saved more than $38 million on bills

  • planted 5,269,342 trees

  • saved more than 110,000 tonnes CO2e greenhouse gas emissions

  • diverted 177,000 cubic metres of waste from landfill

  • saved 1,798,539 kilolitres of water.

City of Casey Waste Information

Benefits of recycling food waste:

Reducing food waste saves money. The average family in Victoria loses about $2200 a year from wasting food, and almost 250,000 tonnes of food waste is sent to landfill each year. That’s nearly one in five shopping bags per week!

Recycling food waste is good for the environment, returning valuable nutrients to the earth. It also reduces the production of methane and the volume of waste sent to landfill.

All Casey residents can now put household food scraps straight into their dark red garden waste bin. Council will collect your garden and food waste to create compost.

What can you do? 

SUSTAINABILITY AT HOME - The City of Casey Tips: https://www.casey.vic.gov.au/sustainability-home

WASTE and RECYCLING Ideas: https://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/You-and-your-home/Waste-and-recycling

Food and Garden Waste Bin:

Put these in your food and garden waste bin:

  • food scraps and waste

  • grass clippings

  • weeds

  • garden prunings

  • flowers

  • small branches (up to 75cm in length and 7.5cm in diameter)

Don't put these in your food and garden waste bin

  • general household waste

  • plastic bags or liners (including compostable or degradable items)

  • soil or stones

  • timber

  • building or renovation materials

How to use Casey's food waste recycling service

  1. To use the service, you must have a dark red food and garden waste bin. If you do not have one, you can order these bins online from Council.

  2. Choose a container or kitchen caddy to collect your household food scraps. Keep this container on the kitchen bench so it is easy to remember to use it.

  3. Put in food scraps and waste. Acceptable items include all fruit and vegetable scraps, meat, bones and seafood, dairy, bread and noodles, leftovers and spoiled food.

  4. Remember, food must be nude! Do not include any packaging with your food waste, including biodegradable bags, as they cannot be processed. Paper towel and newspaper are an exception. These may be used to line your food scraps containers or wrap food to lessen smells. View how to get rid of your waste.

  5. Take your food scraps container outside and empty it into the dark red food and garden waste bin.

  6. The food and garden waste bin is collected as usual every fortnight.