Campus environment committee meets

Brisbane Water Secondary College Umina campus School Environment Committee (SEC) met for the first time in week one this term.

It consisted of teachers, students, community members and ancillary staff and will develop a School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP).

As a first step in developing the SEMP, the SEC will be conducting a waste audit on Tuesday, August 12.

This will involve students, teachers and environmental education staff sorting, classifying and recording the total school waste for one day collected from the bins throughout the school.

This is done in a safe and non-hazardous way.

The SEC can assess the situation and develop strategies for reduction.

According to committee spokesman, Mr Lynch, the vegetative community in the school grounds is of considerable importance and includes some threatened areas of Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland which is unique to the area.

The SEC is aware of this important endangered ecological community and will protect it during the upcoming building process and will make it a priority for the SEC next year.

The SEC has also subscribed to a printer cartridge-recycling program to reduce landfill and make a few dollars for the school.

Please send your empty cartridges to the school to be placed in the ink post box in the library foyer.

A 100% recycled paper is also being trialled in the printers and photocopiers around the school.

School newsletter, August 12