Latest recipients of WasteSorted Schools grants announced

School

Project summary

Total funding

Albany Primary School

To purchase a recycling hub to collect five specialised recycling streams from the community.

$5,050.76

Ardross Primary School

To purchase red, green and yellow bins and Containers for Change wire baskets to create waste sorting stations with appropriate signage.

$1,735.76

Attadale Primary School

To purchase FOGO collection bins for the early childhood area, a co-mingled recycling bin for the canteen, red general waste bin lids to ensure compliance with Australian standard bin colours and vests for the school green team.

$1,126.50

Baler Primary School

To process the school's food waste through worm farms, compost bins and Bokashi buckets.

$2,225.90

Bayswater Primary School

To purchase a fridge worm farm, two incursions to educate students on how to maintain it, wicking beds to close the loop on the school's organic recycling and a paper shredder to produce worm bedding.

$6,729.80

Beaconsfield Primary School

To purchase Australian standard bins, signage, worm farms and compost bins.

$5,423.40

Beaumaris Primary School

To purchase general waste and organic waste bins so food waste can be easily collected and composted.

$1,102.20

Bindoon Primary School

To purchase and set up a worm farm, a compost bin and a waste sorting station with appropriate signage.

$3,251.03

Butler Primary School

To purchase compost bins to increase the amount of food waste composted at school.

$2,586.00

Cooloongup Primary School

To purchase reusable containers and beeswax wraps to reduce the use of single use plastics in the canteen and garden infrastructure to close the loop on the school's existing organics recycling.

$5,449.61

Davallia Primary School

To improve the school's closed loop gardens with reticulation and fruit trees.

$5,515.00

Dianella Secondary College Education Support Centre

To purchase bins to collect drink containers for Containers for Change, in-ground worm farms, worms, worm farming gloves and tools and seedlings for the garden.

$1,607.75

East Manjimup Primary School

To purchase compost bins, a sink for washing hands after gardening club and reticulation for the garden beds that close the loop on the school's organic recycling.

$3,628.75

Eaton Primary School

To purchase materials to make worm tubes, garden beds to house them and prizes to help promote the school's waste-free lunches.

$2,484.15

Falcon Primary School

To make improvements in the school's closed loop garden program by purchasing four compost bins, food scrap buckets, gardening gloves and tools, carbon rich materials for composting and worm farming and vertical garden beds.

$2,543.32

Freshwater Bay Primary School

To purchase bin surrounds to protect the school's waste sorting stations from vandalism.

$5,500.00

Greenwood Primary School

To purchase a community recycling hub and bins and buckets for the collection of different waste streams.

$5,310.00

Halls Head College Education Support Centre

To purchase co-mingled recycling bins, Containers for Change baskets, trolleys for collecting recyclables and appropriate signage to upgrade the recycling systems in the school.

$1,627.70

Harrisdale Primary School

To create a purpose-built community recycling hub with designated bins to collect multiple waste streams.

$5,745.00

Heritage College Perth

To create a closed-loop whole school recycling system with food scraps to chickens and worms, chicken manure to compost, compost and worm castings to the veggie garden, veggies to cooking classes and scraps back to the chickens and worms.  The school will purchase a compost bin, items to improve their chicken pen, gardening tools, a small shed to store tools and paper recycling bins to collect paper for the worm farms and compost.

$5,232.00

Jerramungup District High School

To purchase a chicken coop and chickens to process lunch scraps that can't go through the school's worm farm.

$3,346.95

John Butler Primary College

To purchase items to facilitate rubbish collection by the school's Eco Warriors.

$4,807.45

Jolimont Primary School

To purchase waste stations for student eating areas and the staff room, paper recycling bins, Containers for Change wire baskets and storage cubes for hard to recycle items.

$3,425.64

Karratha Primary School

To purchase reusable water bottles to reduce the use of single-use plastic at sports carnivals.

$2,499.00

Kennedy Baptist College

To purchase red, green and blue lids to repurpose existing bins to collect different waste streams and purchase composting infrastructure to process the school's food waste.

$1,653.24

Kent Street Senior High School

To purchase plastic recycling machines to enable Design and Technology students to create products from plastic waste thus combining environmental awareness, STEM education and hands-on learning.

$5,500.00

Kwoorabup Nature School

To purchase a chicken coop and chickens to process food scraps and create a 'deep litter' system where the chickens will create mulch for the garden beds from green waste.

$3,755.95

Landsdale Gardens Primary School

To purchase worm farms and compost bins to process the school's food waste.

$5,491.70

Lesmurdie Senior High School

To purchase a worm farm, two waste stations with signage and garden infrastructure to close the loop on organic recycling.

$4,649.96

Mindarie Senior College

To purchase Australian standard coloured bins to create waste sorting stations.

$2,418.00

Mother Teresa Catholic College: Junior School

To purchase compost bins, wicking beds and related tools to process the school's food and green waste and share recycling successes and tips with the wider school community.

$4,976.19

Mother Teresa Catholic College: Middle and Senior School

To purchase compost infrastructure and wicking beds to close the loop on the school's organic recycling.

$4,830.75

Noranda Primary School

To purchase a waste sorting hub to collect hard to recycle items from the wider community and to purchase badges and vests for the recently established green team.

$1,703.16

North Harrisdale Primary School

To purchase small electric composting machines and collection buckets for processing scraps from Crunch & Sip.

$4,915.95

Nyabing Primary School

To purchase bins for waste stations, in-ground worm farms, food waste collection bins and additional chickens for the school's coop.

$2,194.60

Perth Waldorf School

To purchase recycling bins, Containers for Change baskets, worm farms and worms.

$4,612.86

Rehoboth Christian College: Wilson Campus

To purchase paper recycling bins, compost bins, buckets for collecting food scraps and composting tools.

$2,015.38

Roseworth Primary School

To purchase cages and appropriate signage for participating in Containers for Change.

$2,606.76

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Thornlie

To upgrade general waste bins so that they conform to standard Australian bin colours, are easily recognisable and will complement the existing blue paper bins and green organics bins.

$749.75

Safety Bay Primary School

To purchase co-mingled recycling bins for bin stations and a compost bin to process excess food waste.

$2,754.85

Somerly Primary School

To purchase red, yellow, blue and green bins to create four-bin waste stations for classrooms and common areas around the school.

$4,849.90

South Thornlie Primary School

To purchase raised garden beds, soil and gardening tools to create a veggie garden for the school community that closes the loop on the school's organic recycling.

$2,260.50

St Lawrence's Primary School Bluff Point

To purchase hats and vests to easily identify the school's green team and tools to facilitate their care of the school worm farm and veggie garden.

$998.72

St. Thomas' Primary School

To purchase paper recycling bins, compost bins and tools, garden infrastructure and a shed to store equipment.

$4,222.17

The Beehive Montessori School Inc.

To purchase matching recycling bins for each class to reduce confusion and a community recycling hub.

$6,593.84

Woodlands Primary School

To purchase recycling bins, badges for the green team, a shed for storing gardening tools and materials for running waste audits.

$3,671.66