Greerton Kindergarten is saving the environment one step at a time, celebrating the recent completion of their ‘litter-less' lunchboxes.

DJ O'Donnell, teacher Pam Hunton, Lily Williams and Cody Andrew. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

About 40 lunch wrappers were made in the first sitting. Teacher Pam Hunton says the idea was inspired by enviroschools philosophy for reducing waste.
'I had these commercial lunch wrappers and we wanted to see if we could make these litter-less lunchboxes for the kids. We looked at different ways of making them and these ones are made with either clothing bags or lolly bags because of the more durable plastic.”
The wrappers are created fusing plastic bags together to make a durable plastic wrap which is then cut to size and finished by machine sewing the edges and adding Velcro to secure the wrap. The kindergarten kids were very hands on during the process and got to experience a different type of technological process.
'The kids were ironing and sewing the Velcro on. A lot of children don't have experience with an iron, so we were using some technology that often children don't get to use.”
The environmentally friendly lunch wrappers are part of the kindergarten's commitment to reducing waste. Pam says this is a 'work in progress as the children go to school in different groups, we want to make it an on going thing”.
The lunch wrappers are suitable for sandwiches, filled rolls or other lunch box foods and are easily cleaned to be reused time and time again.