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Tuesday 6 December 2011

Students taking action to reduce waste

It doesn't seem to matter what landfill you go to, a common theme is that they are FULL of unnecessary packaging, re-usable or recyclable products. Students in the Squamish Lillooeet Regional District are leading the charge to change this by reducing, re-using, recycling, and re-thinking waste. 
Students at the Xit'olacw Community School visit the Mt. Currie Dump and point out a fully functioning bike
Squamish landfill is almost full and a lot of the material is still usable

expansion site at Squamish Landfill
The Squamish landfill, located just north of the community of Squamish is the main landfill in the region servicing Britannia Beach, Furry Creek, Squamish, Pemberton, and Anderson Lake. The garbage pile at the Squamish landfill was reaching its height limit, and there was no liner in place to catch the leachate a.k.a. garbage juice, that flows from the rotting waste. To comply with environmental standards the Squamish landfill has recently undergone a $2million expansion and upgrade. Comparable to the size of 2 official soccer fields, the new landfill expansion site will have a 20m high pile of garbage in 5 years at our current rate of disposal. If you have been to the Squamish Landfill you will know that this space is surrounded by trees, rivers, roads, and homes which means that future expansions are not really an option. Whistler ships their waste by truck and train to the Rabanco Landfill located in Washington State, and Mt. Currie is looking to decommission their landfill soon as 6 of the 10 available pits at this site are full. The other landfill in the region is located in Lillooet, and it serves Lillooet and Goldbridge.

Every single person in the region throws away almost 1 tonne, or 2000 lbs of garbage and recycling every single year - times 1 tonne by the over 54,000 people that call the region home, and you have got yourself a hefty pile. In fact this pile is larger then the the provincial average. The Squamish Lillooet Regional District is working with communities and residents to reduce peoples individual waste by 67%, and students in Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton,Mt. Currie and Lillooet are answering this call.

Ms. Allen's class @ Spring Creek in Whistler make zero waste posters

So far 13 elementary classes have participated in the regional garbage free lunch challenge. Classes explore ways to reduce, re-use, recycle, and re-think their lunch time waste and conduct a "typical"  lunch time waste audit. With the help of their parents, students then host a garbage free lunch day and re-audit their waste. So far EVERY class has reduced their waste. Ms. Desbrisay's grade 5/6 class at Myrtle Philip in Whistler showed an 86% reduction and are the top reducers so far going from 112 pieces of waste to 16 pieces on garbage free lunch day. Between 23 students in Ms Carsons 3/4 class at Mamquam Elementary only 6 pieces of garbage needed to thrown out on their garbage free lunch day, and check out this note from Ms. Hain at Stawamus Elementary
 
"So you will be happy to hear we are reducing our garbage and have started a compost as well that our TA takes home at the end of the week. We have also organized a Zero Waste Challenge for the school and we are running it this week! Lastly, we have gotten the school to change the lunch program a bit - no more plastic sandwich bags, instead reusable containers, no more paper bags -  Save On donated reusable ones, and laminated lunch slips that we use dry erase marker on, instead of throwing them out!"   - Ms. Hain, Sqawamus Elementary Grade 4 Teacher

All elementary classes who show a reduction in lunch time waste are entered to win 1 of 10 classroom worm composters. There are still 2 workshop spaces available (if you know any teachers that would like to participate), and the draw for the worm composters will take place in the new year.


developing the plan
The leadership class students at the Xit'olacw Community School in Mt. Currie have also accepted the Zero Waste High school challenge. They visited the Mt. Currie landfill with the Lil'wat Nation Public Works Department, learned about waste management planning, and audited their schools waste. After all this trash talk the students identified the barriers, and bridges to waste reduction for their school and drafted a reduction plan that they will be implementing in the new year. With a $1000 honorarium from the Zero Waste Program the students plan to purchase composters to eliminate organic waste, and second hand cutlery/dishware to eliminate plastic forks, knives, and styrofoam cups in the cafeteria. They also plan on hiring student waste ambassadors who will monitor lunch time waste and educate fellow students on recycling, compost, and re-use practices for the school, as well help the cafeteria ladies with dishes to make sure that cups are returned, and re-usable dishware is taken care of. The leadership class is self producing a video on their waste reduction plan that will be released in the new year...stay tuned.

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