The school has started making recyclable shopping bags after it was given a large amount of fabric offcuts to use in textiles technology classes.
Textiles teacher Julie Butler said the small pieces were not large enough for pupils to use in typical class projects.
So she organised a group of pupils into teams of four — one in the role of product manager/quality control, two sewing and one as an ironer — and in two hours, they stitched some of the pieces together to produce about 20 recyclable shopping bags.
"The class ran like a little bag factory," she said.
Each bag contains a "Made By DNI" label and an environmental message, such as, "Save the world, one plastic bag at a time".
She said the bags would be left in a box outside Gardens New World, for shoppers who forgot their usual recyclable bag. They could then return the bags the next time they visited, she said.
"Hopefully it’s an ongoing thing, where we can save the environment from plastic."
Ms Butler said the school planned to make about 100 recyclable bags for the supermarket, and if it proved popular, the initiative might be spread to other supermarkets in the city.
