The schoolboard is working
hard to reduce its energy consumption and green house
gas (GHG) emissions and ask all the students, teachers and staff to
support this cause.
First and foremost, it is a moral assignment that everyone should
embrace.
Here a few simple gesture that you can do in your school or even at
home! Become an energy
efficiency ambassador today!
The hardest part is
to think about it - doing it is so easy!
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Used
Paper
Paper
is derived from trees, a natural resource we should all try to save as
much as possible. In addition, logging, processing of pulp into paper,
and transportation of the paper to your school takes a large quantity
of energy and causes a lot of pollution. The production of a ton of
paper pollutes hundreds of gallons of water.
Here’s a summary of the
three R’s
1. Reduce
consumption of paper
The
advent of computers and informatics was supposed to reduce paper
usage. Instead, the amount of paper used per year has
quadrupled
over the past 15 years! Don’t print documents that could be archived
and viewed on your computer or network. If printing is required, print
double-sided. Most printers can do this simple step that will save half
the paper.
2. Reuse Paper
Paper
that has already been used on one side can be used again as writing or
drawing paper on the other side. Take it home and use it instead of
buying drawing paper or notepads, it will save money as well!
3. Recycling
paper
Organize
waste paper collection in each class, and designate a student to take
it to the school’s central recycling collection.
Also,
use recycled paper whenever possible. Each ton of regular
paper
replaced by a ton of recycled paper saves approximately:
- 17 mature trees
- 46,000 litres of water
And also avoids the production of:
- 490 kg of solid waste
- 3 kg of waste suspended in water
- one ton of atmospheric pollution (particles and/or
greenhouse gas)