Students at Carranballac College in Point Cook called on the The Alfred hospital’s surgical team to help treat a growing community “disease” – plastic garbage.
The children collected more than 100 kilograms of plastic bottles, shopping bags and lunch wrapping over two years, while the hospital’s operating theatre staff collected plastic wrapping from medical supplies.
The waste has been transformed into a school yard bench.
Sustainability and science teacher John Forrester says parent Caryn Auld, who works at The Alfred and has two sons, Hamish and Hugo, at the school, suggested the recycling partnership.
