Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge

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About the Challenge

The Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge, a joint initiative of Sustainability Victoria and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, encourages schools to enhance student understanding of how daily activities impact on the environment and provides information on the small steps everyone can take to reduce this impact and become more ResourceSmart.

The Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge targets lunch rubbish and offers a curriculum-based solution to preventing rubbish and promoting healthy eating in schools.

We encourage all schools across Victoria to participate in this fantastic initiative. 

Enter one of the following categories

Beginner Category – for those schools that can demonstrate new actions taken to make rubbish free lunch an everyday feature of their school.

Advanced Category – for those schools that can demonstrate already initiated rubbish free lunch actions which will lead to sustainable change in reducing lunch rubbish.

Hero School Category – for those outstanding schools that have consistently participated in the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge, and that have made significant contributions towards achieving sustainability within their school community.

What can your school win?

  • Winning prizes of $2,000 for the best primary and secondary school in both the Beginner and Advanced categories
  • Runners-up prizes of $250 for primary and secondary school in both the Beginner and Advanced categories
  • A prize of $2,000 for the winner of the Hero Award School category

All schools that enter will also receive a special certificate of participation.

Judging

A panel of judges made up of senior personnel from Sustainability Victoria, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Melbourne Waste Management will determine the winners.  

The decision of the judging panel is final.

The judging panel reserves the right to move submissions into a more appropriate category if deemed necessary.

Sponsors

sustainability victoria logoThe Challenge is sponsored by Sustainability Victoria and is an initiative of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to enhance environmental education in schools and to encourage Victorian schools to become ResourceSmart.