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Wainui School is rapidly reducing its waste, thanks to Hibiscus Coast Zero Waste and, now, some deep trenches dug into a former long jump pit.
The school is a member of Garden to Table, and is an Enviroschool. It already has raised beds of vegetables, and a system supported by the local Zero Waste team that includes the children putting their food scraps into Bokashi bins.
These had been collected by Zero Waste for its City to Farm project, or composted, but recently a third option became available – burying them in the clay soil. This improves the soil over time.
On August 23, a team of 35 youth (aged 16-18) from the Blake Foundation joined Zero Waste at the school. The young people got to work digging trenches into a disused long jump pit and Wainui’s Year 8 students, who are leading the project, put in the scraps and covered them up.
Year 8 teacher Leanne Stevenson says her students have taken ownership of the project, enthusiastically recording data, encouraging and educating younger students and looking after the bins.
