Members of the South Australian Student Representative Council (SA SRC) want all South Australian schools to be environmentally sustainable. This includes improving the waste and recycling practices of their school canteen to reduce food waste going to landfill and carbon emissions going into the atmosphere.
School canteens are important places where schools can show commitment to being environmentally sustainable. Students want school canteens that not only provide fresh and affordable food options, but which are also committed to eliminating the use of plastic packaging and reducing the volume of food and organic waste being sent to landfill. Currently, there is no state-wide approach being taken by government to support schools and their canteens to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. But this doesn’t mean that greening school canteens in South Australia is unachievable.
Greening Our Canteens is one of five campaigns undertaken by the 2024 SA SRC. You can also access the position briefs for Fitness for Free, Frees Fares for Our Future, Our Future Our Vote, and Seeing Ourselves.