Programs and tours

Let's talk rubbish!

Waste education officers are available for talks and workshops on waste education with community groups from Perth's Eastern Region. Topics covered will be discussed with the event organizer according to the group's preferences, and can include:

• Waste management in Perth's Eastern Region
• Community programs and waste services available for residents
• What we can all do to reduce, reuse and recycle more effectively

Talks and workshops are available during weekdays and bookings are essential.

For information and bookings, contact staff in Waste Education:
Tel: 9424 2222
E-mail: mail@emrc.org.au 
Website: www.rgang.org.au

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School tours and activities

School tours (1.5 hours)

Schools from Perth's Eastern Region are encouraged to take a free tour of EMRC's Red Hill Waste Management Facility and find out how their rubbish is being managed safely and responsibly, and the different ways waste can be turned back into a resource. The tour provides an engaging, visually memorable experience of waste and the work required to manage it. Waste education officers guiding the tour provide the students with entertaining and informative commentary tailored to their age.

The school tour can be accompanied with a visit to the on-site Environmental Education Centre.

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School activities (Environmental Education Centre: 1.5 to 2 hours)

By visiting our interactive education centre, students will have a valuable opportunity to learn more about ways they can contribute towards a sustainable future and successful waste management through reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering resources from waste.

Students will learn about several aspects of sustainability by working in groups to learn about good waste management practices. The hands-on activities include:

• Sorting out recyclables from waste
• Identifying household hazardous waste
• Turning landfill gas into electricity
• What is a landfill cell and how is it constructed?
• Introducing the R-Gang (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Recover)
• Shopping smart
• Looking at litter
• Creating artwork using unwanted objects

Please note: This excursion is best suited to year 4, 5, 6 & 7 students.

Cost
All activities are offered free of charge to schools located in EMRC's member Council areas of Bassendean, Bayswater, Belmont, Kalamunda, Mundaring and Swan. Bookings are essential. Schools must also provide their own bus.

Excursions to the Environmental Education Centre and/or tours of the Red Hill Waste Management Facility may be booked for Tuesdays and Fridays of each term.

If you are interested in organising a school group to Red Hill for a tour of the facility and/or the education centre please download the brochure.

For further information and bookings, contact staff in Waste Education:
Tel: 9424 2222
E-mail: mail@emrc.org.au  
Website: www.rgang.org.au

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School programs

The provision of waste education programs for schools is a priority in Perth's Eastern Region.

Transpacific Cleanaway waste education staff deliver waste education incursions to primary schools. As part of the program, Cleanaway promotes EMRC school tour program of the Red Hill Waste Management Facility. Over 1,000 students visit the facility annually.

In addition to hosting school tours and activities at the Environmental Education Centre, EMRC coordinates several other school waste education programs in Perth's Eastern Region on behalf of its member Councils. EMRC also collaborates with officers delivering state-run waste education programs to contribute locally relevant content and updated information on local waste and recycling services.

To find out more about these programs, visit the links below.

• School battery recycling program
• Other waste & sustainability education programs

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High school community service program

The Community Service Program is a WA initiative which encourages secondary students to complete a minimum of twenty hours of community service before graduating from year 12. This year EMRC has begun working with local high schools to complete a number of projects.

The projects are based around waste and environmental management. Throughout term two and three students from Helena College have been helping to transform the outside of the Environmental Education Centre by creating vibrant art panels and a range or garden at, made from recovered objects and/or with an environmental theme.

Using wooden panels as their canvas, students have been creating pieces of art using materials and objects which would have been thrown away to landfill. Once complete, the panels are fixed to the exterior of the education centre. Visiting school groups can admire the art and see it as a creative example of materials being reused instead of going to landfill.

Before starting the projects, students are required to participate in a tour of the Red Hill landfill site and an induction with EMRC staff members to gain an understanding of how waste is managed in Perth's Eastern Region and the importance of reducing and reusing waste. A community artist assists students with their ideas and gives guidance on different techniques that can be explored.

Future options for community service projects include:

• Developing garden art for the Environmental Education Centre using recovered objects and materials
• Developing window coverings focused on environmental themes and using recovered materials for the interior of the centre.
• On-site rehabilitation projects.
• Working with students and teachers in developing their own waste-wise programs at school.

EMRC hopes to continue partnering with different schools from across Perth's Eastern Region to complete these community service projects.

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For information contact staff in Waste Education:
Tel: 9424 2222
E-mail: mail@emrc.org.au
Website: www.rgang.org.au