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Commenced planning for the
installation of $5 million in rooftop
solar panels to schools over three years
Recycling for
Sustainable
Living
Maningrida College students bagged
thousands of bottles and cans and loaded
them on the Sea Swift barge for delivery to
Envirobank Recycling in Darwin.
The recycling scheme is part of the
national ‘Beating the Drum for a Healthier
Environment’ initiative.
The community clean up project demonstrates
resource conservation and recycling, and
earned students five cents per can or bottle.
The students learned about sustainable
living, civic responsibility, and how to
employ mathematics, be enterprising and
entrepreneurial.
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Northern Territory Department of Education
Y A
O
C TI
We worked towards creating a better environment now
and into the future by reducing our everyday impacts,
using our resources more efficiently and teaching
students how to use resources in environmentally
sustainable ways.
This project had robust links to traditional
Aboriginal values and practices that
characterise responsible land and sea
custodianship.
We support the three pillars of
sustainability: environmental
sustainability by conserving and
efficiently using energy and materials
and managing our environmental impact
and waste; social sustainability by
supporting social equity and social needs,
and engaging with the community; and
economic sustainability by providing
pathways to prosperity through inclusive
education, developing skills for jobs and
creating and enhancing employment
opportunities.
TEGIC P
INTRODUCTION
SUPPORTING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY