Rainbow school board challenges students to reduce plastic use

Rainbow District School Board has challenged staff and students to reduce harmful plastics in lunches, classroom activities and lesson plans.

“Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time,” said Director of Education Bruce Bourget, in a press release. “To address this, we need to consider the way we produce, use and manage anything made with plastic. It is estimated that Canadians dispose of more than three million tons of plastic waste each year - with less than 10 per cent getting recycled.

A custom for Indigenous people, particularly the Anishinaabek, is to harvest foods from natural sources. With plastics polluting the nibi, water, and the aki, earth, animals and fish are consuming them and are dying.

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