Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge - How to Enter
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How to enter
Follow the steps on this page in order to put your best case forward.
Determine the entry category
Beginner School - the Beginner School award is open to schools that can demonstrate new actions taken to make rubbish free lunch an everyday feature of their school.
Advanced School - the Advanced School award is open to schools that can demonstrate already initiated rubbish free lunch actions which lead to sustainable change in reducing lunch rubbish.
Hero School - the Hero School award is open to schools that have won or been runner-up in the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge twice or more since its inception in 1998.
Register your school
Register your school by email before Thursday, 29 May 2008
Please include all of the following details in your email: School name, DEECD Region, Postal address, Telephone number, Contact person, Email address.
Indicate which category you wish to enter:
- Beginner Primary School
- Beginner Secondary School
- Advanced Primary School
- Advanced Secondary School
- Hero School
Develop or review your Rubbish Free Lunch policy
Involve the whole school in developing, communicating and implementing a Rubbish Free Lunch Policy. Use the curriculum-based activities to help develop your policy, see: Resources
If your school has an existing policy, this is a good chance to check your progress and review the policy.
Measure rubbish on a typical day
Measure and record the total amount of lunch rubbish on a typical school day before you hold your rubbish free lunch. This will help you see how you are going in reducing your rubbish.
Please note that you may choose a variety of measurement techniques but measurements in grams/kilograms must be included in your final report.
TIP – Get students to brainstorm on ways to measure rubbish. They may suggest weighing empty receptacles then weighing receptacles containing rubbish. If bins are fixed or too large to weigh on scales you can empty the rubbish into another container and weigh that.
You can use a set of kitchen or bathroom scales to weigh rubbish.
Based on the results and the amount of rubbish you collect on the typical school day, you can refine your Rubbish Free Lunch policy. The information you collect on the types of rubbish may assist you to find and develop strategies to reduce lunch waste on the measurement day.
Promote to the school community
Following the results taken on a typical school day, promote your new Rubbish Free Lunch policy and the measurement day to the school community and parents. Give them tips and ideas on providing their children with rubbish free lunches.
Hold a Rubbish Free Lunch Day
Hold a Rubbish Free Lunch Day on Wednesday, 18 June 2008.
(Prior to 18 June 2008 please ensure that you have measured your lunch rubbish on a typical school day.)
Measure the total amount of lunch rubbish and determine the reduction of rubbish (by weight in grams/kilograms) compared to the rubbish you measured on a typical school day and use the table below to calculate your results.
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Typical Day |
Lunch Day |
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Total Rubbish (/grams/kilograms) |
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Total rubbish / number of students involved |
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Use the curriculum-based activities to help run your Rubbish Free Lunch Day, see: Resources
Complete the criteria
In order to put your best case forward - and to know the conditions under which your entry will be judged - follow these links to find the categories you are interested in:
Complete entry form
- Complete the Beginner and Advanced Entry Form (Word - 746Kb)
- Complete the Hero School Entry Form (Word - 747Kb)
How to submit your entry
Entries to the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge may be submitted by post or email as follows:
Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge 2008
Jasmin Pilkington
Communications Division
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
GPO Box 4367
Melbourne VIC 3001
Email rubbishfreelunch@edumail.vic.gov.au
Entries by post may include the submission in hard copy or electronic format (eg on CD ROM).
For entries by email, file size of total entry must not exceed 3MB. For any images:
- file type should be .JPG or .TIF
- image size should be 800 x 600 pixels
- resolution should be 300 dpi minimum (suitable for publication).
Entries submitted in electronic form must use common software i.e. Microsoft Office 2000; Flash; Windows Media Player; Adobe Acrobat.
All submissions must include a completed entry form.