11 Feb 2019
An inspring journey about a high school reducing waste and saving money
Like many schools, all of Kiama High School’s waste has been sent to landfill for decades, and with over 1,030 students and 90 staff, this had large and compounding implications for our environment. In 2018, we partnered with ABC TV’s War on Waste to reduce our waste and, in just two school terms, we were able to reduce our landfill waste from 15m3 per week to just 6m3 (see figures 1 and 2). Involving the War on Waste program helped to document and share our activities. Importantly, all of our initiatives can be achieved at almost all of our NSW Public Schools.