SCHOOL EDUCATION, TAKE-BACK SERVICE + CARBON SEQUESTERING

Schools can book an in-school and/or an online talk and slide presentation conducted by the Circular Centre team with the support of 12 year old Watson and his mum Alison (CC Director).  The presentation explains the linear take-make-waste system and how we can re-think it to transition to a more circular design model with the focus on school uniforms.  

Targeting primary schools Year's 4 and up, the talk and associated project engages students, teachers and parents to educate on circular design solutions for textiles and offers positive steps to help implement change.  

We show ways that we can all support animals, humans and the environment through reuse, recycle, repair, and ultimately repurpose clothing "waste" into new products such as mattresses, packaging, dog jackets, new clothing, carpet, underlay and more.  

We take-back the students unwearable and unusable school uniforms.  They are first taught to remove the trims, and we collect everything to put through our Circular Textile Waste Service.  

We introduce some of the great people who work at our Australian Disability Enterprise partners who are doing important jobs to help us create circular streams so we can recycle, repair, redesign, reuse and ultimately repurpose their own school uniforms.

We arrange with schools the opportunity to take a 50 cents-per-garment donation and put this into growing trees that will draw down the carbon emissions used by the manufacturing of their school uniforms and how in future we will also donate to seaweed farming that will do the same job.

100% of the donations is given to Carbon Neutral who will sequester the carbon through their gold standard biodiverse forest regeneration project in Western Australia – one of the top 10 most biodiverse forests in the world.

We work with schools to create age appropriate sewing kits that use soft signage banner material that we divert from landfill.  Sponsored by AFI Branding.