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Lunchtimes never a waste at Glendowie Primary School

Glendowie Primary School students are the ultimate waste busters.
After every lunchtime they sort and recycle all their left over food scraps and rubbish.

It's a job which takes year five students 15 minutes each day. They put their paper and cardboard in recycling bags, plastic cups and tins in blue council bins and food scraps in a worm farm.

Last year the school received a grant from the Auckland Regional Council's Environmental Initiatives Fund which helped pay for two new big waste collection containers. Equipped with wheels, to make them more movable, the bins have separate compartments which can handle lunch rubbish generated by the school's 600 students.

The project has been so successful that only a small amount of left over wrappers and plastic now ends up in the school's red bin which goes to landfill.