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Laminate will take up space in landfill for hundreds of years, leaching petrochemicals and other harmful chemicals into the water and soil.

Sunday 4 May to Saturday 10 May is International Compost Week.  Approximately 50% of the rubbish Australians put in the red landfill bin could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch.

As it gets cooler, there is a precedent for heaters at school being turned up as high as they can go, and even left on overnight as high as 27 degrees.

At the ACT Schools Climate Conference last week we learned that Canberrans generate ONE MILLION TONNES OF WASTE PER YEAR.

Please remember to recycle at school and put your food scraps in the containers in the canteen to go out to our Global Worming wormfarm.

Recently, I read a fascinating article on the ABC News app in relation to the development of language. Essentially, the article posited that language is forever changing and that currently, the greatest single driver of this change is in fact young women and girls.

A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.

SAM students (Sustainability at Merici) will be "switching off" for Earth Hour at recess and planting 40 understorey flowering plants from the local ecosystem (Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland) at lunchtime on Friday 21 March to honour these two events. 

March 2nd-10th is Seaweek: Australia’s major national public awareness campaign to increase ocean literacy.

Sometimes we can feel despair about the state of our environment... however the best cure is to take sustainable action.

Here is a guide for our new high schoolers on uploading your document via Turnitin on SEQTA.

The 2025 Leadership Team is so excited to share with you all the first issue of the brand new Captains’ Newsletter! We hope you enjoy getting to know us and reading about our collective and individual visions for Merici College in 2025.