RE-THINKING WASTE-IN-SCHOOLS CHALLENGE
REGISTRATION FORM
Due: Your projects can begin as soon as you have registered so get your registration in now.
Send registration form to:
Postal address:
or Fax to:
Re-thinking Waste-in-Schools Challenge
8981 9719
Project Manager
Keep Australia Beautiful Council NT
or email to:
PO Box 368
ceo@kabcnt.org.au
Darwin NT 0801
Contact details:
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School
name:
Region:
Postal
Address:
Telephone:
Email:
Name of coordinating
teacher:
Number of students:
I confirm that our school has agreed to take up ‘the Challenge’ and will endeavour to
undertake the activities identified below.
Name of principal:
Signature of principal:
Date:
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Please indicate below the activities your school has decided to attempt. Your school can
choose one or many of the possible activities listed below – or if you have your own ideas
please include them.
The only compulsory category is the Re-think Art which will communicate your schools
projects in a creative way.
Category
Sustainability
Strategy
Year
levels
Examples of event/activity
Participation in the Australian Sustainable School Program (AuSSI) NT
School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP)
Other (please describe):
Litter
Establishing School Litter Policies:
- ‘Nude Food’ policy
- Other (please describe):
Other (please describe):
Participation in the ‘Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge’
Participation in Keep Australia Beautiful’s ‘Pick of the Litter Award’
Program
Participation in School Clean Up Australia Day
Other litter free school yard projects (please describe):
Other litter abatement programs in the community (please describe):
Neighbourhood clean up projects, examples include:
- Adopt a park
- Landcare cleanup days
- Participation in Clean Up Australia Day
- Participation in “Keep Australia Beautiful Week” activities
Recycling
Participate in Cleanaway’s “Watch Out Waste” Education Program
Recycling program for Paper / cardboard, Aluminium cans or steel
cans. Please specify:
Establish a co-mingled recycling program
Set up a “Buy recycled” policy in your school
Donated goods not required from the home: collections for charity,
market day or trading day. Please specify:
Trash Roundup for Recycling (mobile phones, batteries / fluorescent
tubes etc) Please specify:
Recycling of organic lunch scraps/green waste in school grounds.
Please specify:
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Category
Year
levels
Examples of event/activity
Education programs or activities (e.g. visit to Materials Recovery
Facility). Please specify:
Other (please describe):
Category
Energy
Year
levels
Examples of event/activity
Completion of energy saving projects (SETS)
Monitoring and reporting school energy usage and savings in the
school community
Implementation of no or low cost (<5,000) energy saving projects
Implementation of medium to high cost energy saving projects
Renewable energy infrastructure and education program
Travel Smart programs (to reduce volume of petrol used for transport
per year by walking, bussing etc)
Solar Cooker design competition and Solar Cook Off days
Use green vouchers to purchase a solar hot water system for school
Track your carbon emissions whilst reducing them
Other (please describe):
Water
Participation in the Waterwise NT Schools Program (Alice Springs
and Tennant Creek)
Retrofitting water use devices (eg. toilets, taps, bubblers, showers)
with more efficient technology
Whole school water audit
Create a Garden for Wildlife (Alice Springs)
Water Sensitive Urban Design projects
Participation in the 40 Hour Drought
WaterWise garden projects
Mad Mulching Day
Grey water recycling project
Establishing school wetlands (to filter runoff from school catchment
before entering watercourses)
Water tank to harvest water from the school roof
Other (please describe):
Re-think Logo
Re-thinking Waste-in-Schools Challenge Logo Competition
(1 entry per school)
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Category
Examples of event/activity
Re-think Art
Please choose at least one (1) presentation to be delivered at the
“Big Waste Day Out’ gala event
THIS SECTION
IS
COMPULSORY
Year
levels
Examples include:
Comedy routine or short play
Street theatre
Song or dance routine
Art or sculpture
Student ‘Recycled Fashion Show’ (entry)
Poem
Video
Paint
Other (please describe):
FACILITATION OF THE ‘BIG WASTE DAY OUT’
Please indicate if there are any special equipment or facilities that may be needed for your
schools Re-think Art presentation.
Note: special needs may need to be discussed with the KAB Project Manager:
Keep Australia Beautiful Council NT
P: 89815535
E: ceo@kabcnt.org.au
CHECKLIST:
Please indicate that this entry has:
the completed entry form on the front page with the signed endorsement of your School
Principal;
identified the activities your school has chosen to attempt;
identified a contact person for this project in your school; and
provided details if there are any special requirements for your presentation at the Big
Waste Day Out.
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