And this is thanks to four dedicated students who have made it their mission to help educate their peers about recycling.

Exeter assistant principal Amanda Nash said they found students weren’t recycling properly and asked for interested students to become involved in a recycling program.

Antonia Fagan, Will Campbell, Isaac Matthews and Evie De Nooy are now the school’s leaders in recycling.

They stand at the bins each recess and lunch and help the other students sort their rubbish.

“They took it upon themselves every recess and lunch to monitor the bins and check who’s putting what into each bin and they actually sort the rubbish afterwards and if it was mixed up they put it in right spot.,” Mrs Nash said.

“They’re doing a really good job. It’s a really simple, easy thing that makes a big difference.”

As well as the general rubbish and recycling bins, there are also chicken scraps bins which are used to feed the school chickens.

Antonia said since the program started, students had become better at putting their rubbish in the right bins which meant they didn’t have to sort through the rubbish as much.

Mrs Nash said it had been a great program that had nearly halved the school’s red waste and made students more aware about what they did with their rubbish.

“And our recycling- we can’t have enough bins, which is good.”