“They have a school thrift store where they gather up donations and prepare them for distribution and they give them away to students for free. We sell trees in the spring and the the fall. They clean up the school yard. They are involved in environmental education. So they put up bulletin boards around the school and they have a weekly environmental quiz with a random prize draw.”
In addition, the ENSS Environmental Club has begun hosting a Community Walk for Climate every Friday.
“It brings together different generations. And with the Community Walks we walk together and we can bounce ideas off each other which is really nice. It also, it does serve as a weekly reminder to people, like people that drive by, I think it helps them think about what’s going on in their community.”
The next Community Walk for Climate is Friday, November 17, at 11 a.m.
“Thrift stores, they’re doing a good thing about taking people’s old clothes and selling them. Why don’t we take clothes from our community or from our students and sell them for free so they don’t have to pay anything. And right now we’ve diverted 4302 items from landfills.”
That’s more than 880 kg of fabric waste diverted from landfills.
