Living in coastal Nova Scotia, students at Cape Breton\nHighlands Education Centre were inspired to prevent marine plastic pollution by\nreducing plastic waste in their community. At their local grocery store, the\nstudents implemented a \u201cborrow a bag\u201d system. Back at school, they used\nreusable cutlery to replace the plastics available in the cafeteria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur co-op has almost completely stopped using plastic bags, instead customers use the cloth bags provided or boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Jessie, Grade 11 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Living in coastal Nova Scotia, students at Cape Breton Highlands Education Centre were inspired to prevent marine plastic pollution by reducing plastic waste in their community. At their local grocery store, the students implemented a \u201cborrow a bag\u201d system. Back at school, they used reusable cutlery to replace the plastics available in the cafeteria. \u201cOur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[726,725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-wild-school-grants-secondary","category-secondary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n