In recent years a range of campaigns, media, movies and TV specials, such as ABC’s War on Waste, has shifted our focus towards creating sustainable environments. In schools, students are becoming keenly aware of the challenges we are facing due to society’s dependence on disposability and convenience. It is our children who will inherit a planet overflowing with waste produced and discarded, most of which ends up in our oceans and waterways.
There are multiple ways schools and school canteens can address sustainability.