St Michael’s Tuck Shop Success!
Tangaroa Blue was recently invited to St Michael’s Catholic School on Palm Island to run a beach clean-up activity with some of their students, and to see some of their source reduction strategies in action.
Since Tangaroa Blue’s visit a year ago, staff had conducted an audit of the rubbish that St Michael’s was generating, and it was established that the biggest producer of rubbish within the school was coming from the students’ lunches.
Lunch time at the St Michael’s Tuckshop used to consist of a juice that came in a tetra pack with a plastic straw, and disposable plates, cutlery and cups made from either plastic or Styrofoam. Read more “St Michael’s Tuck Shop Success!”