Turn the tap on
The days of bottled water in Burnaby schools may be numbered. Students from environmental clubs in local high schools are campaigning for people to choose tap water over bottled water to help protect the environment and reduce waste.
“This is the only planet we have. We have to try and take care of it to make sure future generations have the same things we have today,” said Kevin Hua, spokesperson for Alpha Secondary’s environmental club.
The group of about 20 students brought in local resident Peter Cech from Metro Vancouver to talk about the regional government’s tap water campaign.
Metro Vancouver, which supplies Burnaby’s tap water, is also pushing for people to switch to tap water instead of single-use plastic bottles.
Since Cech’s presentation, the students have signed up others in their school to take a pledge to drink tap water, and they’ve had some water fountains fixed, they’ve ordered some stainless steel water bottles to sell. They also collected petition signatures, asking the school district to renegotiate contracts with the vending machine companies to sell less bottled water in schools.
Reno Ciolfi is the district’s director of instruction. He’s also the staff member designated to handle environmental initiatives, so he’s been working with the students on the bottled water issue and is on side.
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