- Grants awarded to 46 schools throughout Western Australia
- More than $140,000 in funding for education and behaviour change projects
- Program has awarded more than $2.6 million in its two-decade history
Dozens of schools throughout Western Australia will share in more than $140,000 in grants that will fund initiatives that assist in avoiding and recovering waste.
The WasteSorted Schools program offers grants to accredited schools for protecting the environment and reducing waste by recycling, composting, avoiding landfill and inspiring students through hands-on learning.
Recipients can use the funds for a range of projects, including:
- setting up recycling hubs for students and their parents;
- worm farms and chicken coops;
- Containers for Change bin systems;
- vegetable gardens; and
- supporting waste-free canteen lunches.
Grants of up to $5,500 per school are available in two rounds per financial year.
Read more on the WasteSorted School Grants here.
As stated by Environment Minister Reece Whitby:
"The WasteSorted Schools program has a long tradition of supporting infrastructure and initiatives to avoid and recover school waste.
"Many schools also find reducing waste reduces their costs.
"Congratulations to all the schools and their educators for thinking outside the box to avoid single-use plastics and helping make a real difference."
WasteSorted Schools Grant recipients - 2023-24
School |
Project summary |
Total funding |
Albany Primary School |
To purchase a recycling hub to collect five specialised recycling streams from the community. |
$5,050.76 |
Ardross Primary School |
To purchase red, green and yellow bins and Containers for Change wire baskets to create waste sorting stations with appropriate signage. |
$1,735.76 |
Attadale Primary School |
To purchase FOGO collection bins for the early childhood area, a co-mingled recycling bin for the canteen, red general waste bin lids to ensure compliance with Australian standard bin colours and vests for the school green team. |
$1,126.50 |
Baler Primary School |
To process the school's food waste through worm farms, compost bins and Bokashi buckets. |
$2,225.90 |
Bayswater Primary School |
To purchase a fridge worm farm, two incursions to educate students on how to maintain it, wicking beds to close the loop on the school's organic recycling and a paper shredder to produce worm bedding. |
$6,729.80 |
Beaconsfield Primary School |
To purchase Australian standard bins, signage, worm farms and compost bins. |
$5,423.40 |
Beaumaris Primary School |
To purchase general waste and organic waste bins so food waste can be easily collected and composted. |
$1,102.20 |
Bindoon Primary School |
To purchase and set up a worm farm, a compost bin and a waste sorting station with appropriate signage. |
$3,251.03 |
Butler Primary School |
To purchase compost bins to increase the amount of food waste composted at school. |
$2,586.00 |
Cooloongup Primary School |
To purchase reusable containers and beeswax wraps to reduce the use of single use plastics in the canteen and garden infrastructure to close the loop on the school's existing organics recycling. |
$5,449.61 |
Davallia Primary School |
To improve the school's closed loop gardens with reticulation and fruit trees. |
$5,515.00 |
Dianella Secondary College Education Support Centre |
To purchase bins to collect drink containers for Containers for Change, in-ground worm farms, worms, worm farming gloves and tools and seedlings for the garden. |
$1,607.75 |
East Manjimup Primary School |
To purchase compost bins, a sink for washing hands after gardening club and reticulation for the garden beds that close the loop on the school's organic recycling. |
$3,628.75 |
Eaton Primary School |
To purchase materials to make worm tubes, garden beds to house them and prizes to help promote the school's waste-free lunches. |
$2,484.15 |
Falcon Primary School |
To make improvements in the school's closed loop garden program by purchasing four compost bins, food scrap buckets, gardening gloves and tools, carbon rich materials for composting and worm farming and vertical garden beds. |
$2,543.32 |
Freshwater Bay Primary School |
To purchase bin surrounds to protect the school's waste sorting stations from vandalism. |
$5,500.00 |
Greenwood Primary School |
To purchase a community recycling hub and bins and buckets for the collection of different waste streams. |
$5,310.00 |
Halls Head College Education Support Centre |
To purchase co-mingled recycling bins, Containers for Change baskets, trolleys for collecting recyclables and appropriate signage to upgrade the recycling systems in the school. |
$1,627.70 |
Harrisdale Primary School |
To create a purpose-built community recycling hub with designated bins to collect multiple waste streams. |
$5,745.00 |
Heritage College Perth |
To create a closed-loop whole school recycling system with food scraps to chickens and worms, chicken manure to compost, compost and worm castings to the veggie garden, veggies to cooking classes and scraps back to the chickens and worms. The school will purchase a compost bin, items to improve their chicken pen, gardening tools, a small shed to store tools and paper recycling bins to collect paper for the worm farms and compost. |
$5,232.00 |
Jerramungup District High School |
To purchase a chicken coop and chickens to process lunch scraps that can't go through the school's worm farm. |
$3,346.95 |
John Butler Primary College |
To purchase items to facilitate rubbish collection by the school's Eco Warriors. |
$4,807.45 |
Jolimont Primary School |
To purchase waste stations for student eating areas and the staff room, paper recycling bins, Containers for Change wire baskets and storage cubes for hard to recycle items. |
$3,425.64 |
Karratha Primary School |
To purchase reusable water bottles to reduce the use of single-use plastic at sports carnivals. |
$2,499.00 |
Kennedy Baptist College |
To purchase red, green and blue lids to repurpose existing bins to collect different waste streams and purchase composting infrastructure to process the school's food waste. |
$1,653.24 |
Kent Street Senior High School |
To purchase plastic recycling machines to enable Design and Technology students to create products from plastic waste thus combining environmental awareness, STEM education and hands-on learning. |
$5,500.00 |
Kwoorabup Nature School |
To purchase a chicken coop and chickens to process food scraps and create a 'deep litter' system where the chickens will create mulch for the garden beds from green waste. |
$3,755.95 |
Landsdale Gardens Primary School |
To purchase worm farms and compost bins to process the school's food waste. |
$5,491.70 |
Lesmurdie Senior High School |
To purchase a worm farm, two waste stations with signage and garden infrastructure to close the loop on organic recycling. |
$4,649.96 |
Mindarie Senior College |
To purchase Australian standard coloured bins to create waste sorting stations. |
$2,418.00 |
Mother Teresa Catholic College: Junior School |
To purchase compost bins, wicking beds and related tools to process the school's food and green waste and share recycling successes and tips with the wider school community. |
$4,976.19 |
Mother Teresa Catholic College: Middle and Senior School |
To purchase compost infrastructure and wicking beds to close the loop on the school's organic recycling. |
$4,830.75 |
Noranda Primary School |
To purchase a waste sorting hub to collect hard to recycle items from the wider community and to purchase badges and vests for the recently established green team. |
$1,703.16 |
North Harrisdale Primary School |
To purchase small electric composting machines and collection buckets for processing scraps from Crunch & Sip. |
$4,915.95 |
Nyabing Primary School |
To purchase bins for waste stations, in-ground worm farms, food waste collection bins and additional chickens for the school's coop. |
$2,194.60 |
Perth Waldorf School |
To purchase recycling bins, Containers for Change baskets, worm farms and worms. |
$4,612.86 |
Rehoboth Christian College: Wilson Campus |
To purchase paper recycling bins, compost bins, buckets for collecting food scraps and composting tools. |
$2,015.38 |
Roseworth Primary School |
To purchase cages and appropriate signage for participating in Containers for Change. |
$2,606.76 |
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Thornlie |
To upgrade general waste bins so that they conform to standard Australian bin colours, are easily recognisable and will complement the existing blue paper bins and green organics bins. |
$749.75 |
Safety Bay Primary School |
To purchase co-mingled recycling bins for bin stations and a compost bin to process excess food waste. |
$2,754.85 |
Somerly Primary School |
To purchase red, yellow, blue and green bins to create four-bin waste stations for classrooms and common areas around the school. |
$4,849.90 |
South Thornlie Primary School |
To purchase raised garden beds, soil and gardening tools to create a veggie garden for the school community that closes the loop on the school's organic recycling. |
$2,260.50 |
St Lawrence's Primary School Bluff Point |
To purchase hats and vests to easily identify the school's green team and tools to facilitate their care of the school worm farm and veggie garden. |
$998.72 |
St. Thomas' Primary School |
To purchase paper recycling bins, compost bins and tools, garden infrastructure and a shed to store equipment. |
$4,222.17 |
The Beehive Montessori School Inc. |
To purchase matching recycling bins for each class to reduce confusion and a community recycling hub. |
$6,593.84 |
Woodlands Primary School |
To purchase recycling bins, badges for the green team, a shed for storing gardening tools and materials for running waste audits. |
$3,671.66 |
