Lids4Kids - at Radford

By Melinda Hamilton, Teacher

Lids4Kids is a grassroots 100% volunteer-run project which rescues plastics from landfill, to benefit the environment. The organisation repurposes the lids into sustainable products and provides education on sustainability for kids.

Lid4Kids is re-launching this year (post-COVID). Tim Miller, ACT local Hero 2021, launched the program from his home in Aranda in 2019, and had 30,000 volunteers nationwide within a few months. They have saved millions of plastic lids from the environment, and work with plastics manufacturers who turn plastic into new products including skateboards, agricultural pipe, road base, USB sticks, key chains, furniture and much, much more.

COLLECTION POINT at JUNIOR SCHOOL
Lids4Kids is an organisation Radford Junior School has supported for many years by collecting lids for recycling into sustainable products.

Year 4 is continuing their efforts from the past year by collecting washed and dried lids. If you have any to donate, you can place these in a collection bin in the Junior School reception.

FUNDRAISING RAFFLE
In 2022, Lids4Kids aims to raise $50,000 to establish Canberra’s first small plastics recycling and community hubs to support its volunteers, many of whom are children and persons with a disability. This year, the RTC decided to allocate $500 of our Radford Reaches Out funds to Lids4Kids to support this important work.

Lids4Kids is currently having a fundraising raffle, and if you’d like to purchase tickets follow this link.