ECO-WEEK is finally here! Last week in the bulletin and on Twitter, we told you about all our amazing events that we have planned and below is the full schedule. If you have any questions, please come see Miss Laudi. And most importantly of all, make the most of Eco-Week 2019! This is your chance to explore creative avenues into a more sustainable lifestyle! We hope to see you today at lunch time for our plastic-free beauty tutorial!
Our final Eco-Week initiative is a clothing collection for Rock Trust, a charitable organisation that works with young people aged 16 to 25 who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Rock Trust provides useful services like one-to-one support, group programmes, employability training, and volunteering/work experience opportunities. To help young people, Rock Trust also provides supplies like clothing. A year and a half ago, the Eco-Committee ran a donation campaign for Rock Trust and we collected 94 kilos of donations! Let's see if we can top that this year!
We're collecting donations of clean clothes in good condition (ages 16-25/sizes 8-16) from March 11 to 22 - that's two whole weeks! And this comes at a great time because you might be doing some spring cleaning at home and realize that in the depths of your closet, you have a lot of clothes you rarely wear! Rather than send those clothes to landfill, let's put them toward a good cause! Clothing donations can be brought to Miss Laudi's room from March 11-22. We look forward to seeing the Knox community come together for another good cause!
The Eco-Committee is extremely excited to announce that we're bringing an ECO-SHOP to Knox Academy for Eco-Week! Lil is an online/mobile shop that specializes in products aimed at helping people reduce their impact on the environment... in other words, Low Impact Living. Lil champions a lifestyle that is kind to the environment through natural, ethical, and low waste products.
Lil will be selling their eco-friendly products at Knox on Tuesday 12 March in the social area at lunch time. They will also be with us during S2 Parents Night on Tuesday evening from 5pm to 7pm. Lil will be selling a variety of items including shampoo bars, soap bars, reusable straws, lunch boxes, deodorants, lip balms, and more! You can look at Lil's products on their website here, just bear in mind that they won't be bringing in their pantry items (e.g. loose food) or liquid refills. Lil conveniently accepts cash, card, and applepay. So moral of the story: come explore what sustainable products Lil is bringing in and perhaps buy some to try out!
If you're interested in reducing the amount of plastic you use in your daily routine, but you're not quite sure how, then the Knox Eco-Committee's Plastic-Free Beauty Tutorial is just the thing for you! We'll be bringing in a wide range of plastic-free products to show you how we use them and to inspire you to make some eco-friendly swaps! We'll be talking about plastic-free toothpaste, shampoos, moisturizers, deodorants, lip balms, make up remover, and much more! The workshop will take place at 1:20pm in Miss Laudi's room at lunch time on Monday 11 March. We encourage all interested students and staff to come along with your lunch and a pal!
For Eco-Week, the Knox Eco-Committee and Film Club are collaborating to put on a screening of the animated Pixar film WALL-E. The film follows a "waste allocation" robot who is alone on Earth because it has been abandoned by humans due to the sheer volume of rubbish and waste left behind. Unexpectedly, WALL-E embarks on a space adventure that just may save the future of humankind. Intrigued? You can watch the trailer here. If you would like to watch the film next week in the library during Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday lunch times, please collect a form from Mrs. Gourley.
