Reduce Your Footprint

Please watch our slideshow for tips on how to reduce your carbon footprint!

Litterless/Boomerang Lunches

Did you know that school lunches are a major source of waste in Ontario? In fact, the average student’s lunch generates a total of 30 kilograms of waste per school year, or an average of 8,500 kilograms of waste per school per year.

A litterless lunch is a great way to reduce your impact on the environment - and your wallet! A litterless lunch is simply that. It is a lunch that creates no waste! It involves the elimination of disposable products and encourages use of reusable containers. The goal of a litterless lunch is to reduce waste production, and therefore help to reduce our impact on the Earth.

Why pack a litterless lunch?

• It reduces packaging waste
• It's cheaper
• It's healthier

Litterless Lunch (water bottle, sandwich, yogurt, fruit)	Packaged Lunch (juice box, Lunchables, Yo-Tube, fruit chews)
$2.65 / average day	$4.02 / average day
$13.25 / week	$20.10 / week
$477.00 / school year	$723.60 / school year

Yes Please!	No Thank You!
REUSABLE Lunch Carrier	NO paper or plastic bags
REUSABLE containers (Tupperware, Rubbermaid, Lockables)	NO plastic wrap, foil, wax, or Styrofoam
REUSABLE drink bottle or thermos	NO single-use cans or juice boxes
CLOTH NAPKIN to wash and re-use	NO paper napkins
SILVERWARE to wash and re-use	NO plastic forks/spoons
HEALTHFUL snacks	NO overly packaged/processed snacks

Source: WasteFreeLunch.com

What is a Boomerang Lunch?
A boomerang lunch is a lunch that has every piece of it return to its source. In other words, everything in the lunch goes back home at the end of the day. No matter if it is leftover food, containers, recyclables or garbage, it all goes back. Yes, even the garbage.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, Pine Grove will be participating in Litterless/Boomerang Lunches. The eco club will be coming around to cover your garbage bins as a reminder to take all of your garbage home. 

5th Annual Litter Round Up

This Friday will be our 5th Annual Litter Round Up! Pine Grove will be outside cleaning up our school grounds. Please bring your own gloves and remember not to pick up any sharp or foreign objects.

Pine Grove is looking forward to cleaning up our environment. Together we can work toward saving the Earth!

Another Green Year Ahead

Last year we achieved Platinum status for the second year in a row! This year our goals are to continue our previous initiatives (for example, Lights Out and Litterless/Boomerang Lunch) and to make our school grounds pollinator friendly. Join us and help make this the greenest year yet!