Celebrate Waste Reduction Week and follow it up with action plans that ‘upcycle’ items that are not recyclable. Tips: Waste Reduction Week is in October. Make this a campaign by holding a week of waste reduction activities that track school progress and educate...
Earlier this year, students on the Tecumseh Public School EcoTeam in Halton District School Board decided they wanted to take action against textile waste. While conducting their own research on the subject, they discovered CBC Marketplace’s recent coverage on waste...
We’re in the middle of Waste Reduction Week – the perfect time for your school community to meet the requirements of the Waste Minimization section. Here are three ways to become a verifiable waste wizard. Do a waste audit to see how you’re doing with waste...
As part of our Climate Leadership Contest, we invited schools to share how they took climate action during COP 22 (November 7-18, 2016) for the chance to be entered into a $500 prize draw from Cascades. This spring, we will be sharing our winning schools’ stories....
You open the lunch box & see: a double-plastic wrapped snack, a disposable container of crackers and cheese, a plastic fork, a drink box. According to the Recycling Council of Ontario the average student’s lunch creates about 30 kilos of waste every year. Now, add...
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