Out with the old...

NEIL DUDDY/Western Leader

SPECIAL IMPORT: A new environmentally-friendly heating system arrives at the Henderson Valley School.

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It is leading the way when it comes to clean and green practices.

Henderson Valley Primary School has a new eco-friendly heating system designed to cut down on harmful emissions this winter.

"We had a coal-fired boiler and you could see and taste the smoke and fumes from it," principal Maree Stavert says.

"We had to replace it because it was polluting our beautiful Waitakere environment."

The boiler generated up to 30kg of waste a week that had to go to landfill.

The new heating system will be waste-free.

"We are a part of the enviroschools programme that promotes green initiatives," Ms Stavert says.

"We promote sustainability and the old system didn’t fit in with our beliefs."

The system, imported from Austria, uses a woodchip-burning boiler and is one of only two in the country that arrived last week. The other is going to a school in Thames.

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