When Newcastle's Belair Public School introduced a new uniform, it didn't want the old ones to end up in landfill. A plan was hatched to recycle them, and also help a remote Fijian community, cyclonic conditions and all.
When Belair Public School in Newcastle decided to update its uniform last year, it was determined to stop its students' old uniforms ending up in landfill.
"As more families moved to the new uniforms we were left with a surplus of our old uniform," she said.Textile recycling group Worn Up estimates each Australian school discards between 100 and 200 kilograms of non-wearable uniforms per year.Belair parent Lindsay Wachs, who volunteers at the school's uniform shop, said she was determined to find a use for the clothes.
Their journey to the rural school in the north-east of Fiji's main island Viti Levu proved to be more complicated due to intense wet weather on the island, as it was during cyclone season.Instead of travelling directly to the school through the heart of the country, Mr Traill and the group had to drive around half the island to reach the school near the village of Rakiraki."It was during cyclone season, so there had been quite a bit of rain across the country.
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