Reflections

Merici College Green Tip #40 - Suggestions to reduce your waste to landfill this Christmas s

Submitted by mericiadmin on December 15, 2020 - 1:06pm

​Welcome to the last Green Tip of the year!

Usually, the tip at this time of the year has some suggestions for how to reduce your environmental impact at Christmas.

This year, while researching I came across an article that provides 3 useful tips while counting how many tonnes of waste have gone to landfill in the time that readers are visiting their website. It is an eye-opener that provides motivation for reducing our environmental footprint not just during the festive season, but all year around. 

Merici College Green Tip #36 - A different approach to buying clothes!

Submitted by mericiadmin on November 18, 2020 - 9:55am

The link between the clothes we wear and their impact on our environment is often overlooked.

​According to https://www.onegreenplanet.org/ fashion is the second largest water polluter in the world. 

Also, did you know that nylon production releases nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is 300 times more damaging to our climate than CO2? 

Or, that the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined (Business Insider Australia, 2019). 

Year 12 Farewell Assembly

Submitted by mericiadmin on November 13, 2020 - 3:07pm

Today our Year 12 students were formally farewelled by the Merici College community at a special assembly. On behalf of the staff and students, Mrs Wholley thanked the Year 12 students for the wonderful contribution they have made to Merici College over the years, “Strive with all your might to remain as you are called by God and to seek and desire all the ways and means necessary to persevere and make progress to the very end.” St Angela Merici

Every year at the Opening Assembly since 2013 I have concluded with the words:

Merici College Green Tip #34 – Oceans Over Plastic Dress

Submitted by mericiadmin on November 4, 2020 - 10:34am

Chelsea Giovinazzo, Year 11 student, designed a dress partially made from recycled plastic bags to highlight the perilous dilemma of plastics in our oceans and environment. The dress was made for the unit "Design for Futures" which focuses on sustainability through repair, repurpose and recycling. Displayed in the school library, the dress seeks to drive awareness of the risks from plastic to our global waterways and ecosystems.

Merici College Green Tip #33 - Save clothing from landfill at Merici Sw(op) Shop event Tuesday 3 November

Submitted by mericiadmin on October 29, 2020 - 11:01am

Australians buy an average of 27 kilograms of new textiles each year and then discard about 23 kilograms into landfill  – and two-thirds of those discards are manmade synthetic/plastic fibres that may never breakdown.

Sustainability consultant Jane Milburn said Australians are the second-largest consumers of new textiles after north Americans who annually buy 37kg each.

https://textilebeat.com/aussies-send-85-of-textiles-to-landfill/

The good news is that you can be part of the solution. 

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