Plastic packaging might be convenient, cheap and easy, but are our luxuries worth the long-term impacts ?
School lunchboxes are packed with plastic. From zip lock bags to fruit pouches, the plastic contents of a single lunch box can contribute a whopping 30 kilograms of plastic to landfill each year. Multiply that out by 600 students in a medium-sized school and you have an enormous 18,000kg of plastic waste each year!
Can you reduce the amount of soft-plastic packaging that you send to school each day? Reduce and recycle. Plastic is a resource..not rubbish!
You can make a difference by choosing alternative to soft- plastic packaging. Instead of cling wrap, use beeswax wraps or reusable containers, Buy one large packet of snacks instead of individually wrapped portions. Bring yoghurt in a container rather than a squeezy pouch. And anything you do bring can be recycled instead of thrown out into the general garbage.
We have a system in place to educate our students and to reduce and recycle the plastics we do bring. We won't contribute to plastic in landfill or in our precious oceans!!