Wanaka Wastebusters has just given us the data for Recycling totals in the previous years. It shows that MAC Team Green push for Paper Recycling has been effective. Paper recycling has become a school-wide culture and we will reinforce it. There … Continue reading
This year, Wanaka Wastebusters has picked up 4 to 6 wheelie bins of paper per month from Mount Aspiring College. They are 240 litre wheelie bins. The weight of the contents can vary a lot depending on whether its shredded paper, … Continue reading
We have just received 26 native trees for our efforts in paper recycling. Thank you to all the students and teachers who use our Paper Recycling bins. A big thank to Paper4Trees who organises this scheme. And a very big … Continue reading
We are so pleased we’ve just received 20 trees, as part of the Paper4Trees project. We will plant them on the college’s grounds on the 23rd October for the 350 MAC Tree Planting event. We warmly thank: EERST for creating this … Continue reading
During a meeting with Green Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, Ralph Adler and Zella Dowling, Mount Aspiring College students have been learning about and exploring how MAC could be come a climate friendly college. NOTES FROM THE MEETING What is MAC already … Continue reading
Our meetings have resumed Thursdays lunchtimes in the library. Our projects this year: Solar Panels – keep an eye as the building as get built Earth Hour – Officially 19th March, we’ll do it every last Friday of every month … Continue reading
Thanks to our school’s paper recycling efforts this year, MAC has earned 31 native trees through the Paper For Trees scheme. We will get an additional 13 trees kindly donated by Te Kakano nursery, so that all whanau groups at … Continue reading
We now meet on Thursdays lunchtimes in the library. The Board of Trustees has granted $6.500 for the installation of MAC first solar panels and our task is to make this happen. It’s fantastic and exciting. We have grouped our … Continue reading
The College has received 44 trees from our paper recycling efforts in 2011 and 2012 and they have just arrived. That is just one tree per whanau! On Fridays morning during long whanau, students from each house will come on the … Continue reading
At the occasion of the World Enviro Day quizz, we invited each whanau to pledge for an action for the environment. The results are lovely: We are going to plant a whanau apple tree and care for it in our … Continue reading
