Woodstock School’s Going Waste Free Everyday

Our Waste Free days have been so successful in reducing rubbish that we will be going WASTE FREE EVERYDAY for the rest of the term. Waste Free Schools all over New Zealand find this to be a successful venture for both creating and maintaining healthy environments, with an added benefit of saving money on rubbish disposal. This will be a great way to keep the clean, green image of Woodstock School.

WASTE FREE DAYS will start Monday 26th May!

We ask that EVERY DAY everyone…
 Packs a NUDE FOOD lunch –where your child’s lunch contains as few items as possible that must be thrown away.
 Uses the WORM BINS to recycle our food scraps.
 Uses the PAPER RECYCLING BOXES for our paper ‘rubbish’.
 THERE ARE NO RED BINS in the playground and the classroom rubbish bins will also be No Go Zones!!!

All other rubbish will be taken home with the children. Wrappers, chip packets, yoghurt containers etc. will be put back into lunch boxes to take home. We will encourage the children to rinse their yoghurt containers first.

This means no litter leaves the classrooms at interval. Packing NUDE FOOD lunch boxes can be a challenge, but here are some ideas to help us…
- Using re-useable bags.
- Peeling Fruit and popping straight into your lunchbox
- Unwrapping Muesli Bars Etc at home before you pack the lunch