new westminster secondary school environment club

New Westminster Secondary School ENVIRONMENT CLUBfor the BC Green Games 2013

We are the only secondary school in New Westminster, and one of the largest in the entire province of BC. The “N’Dub Environment Club” prides itself in its proactive commitment to preserving our global environment through school and community-wide projects.

Compost and Recycling Programs

In the school cafeteria- students created visual signage that effectively helps other students put their waste in the right place

Bokashi Bins in Classrooms

Many food scraps from students and teachers snacking in class end up in the trash. Along with composting in the cafeteria, several classrooms have smaller “bokashi” composting bins to combat this.

We keep bees!The bee farm on the

school roof is a non-profit initiative.We sell and produce 100% natural honey and bees wax candles. The bees also pollinate our school garden

Battery Recycling Program

The NWSS Battery Recycling is an ongoing and annual event that has been occurring for a few years at New Westminster Secondary School. Many individual classrooms have their very own recycled, battery containers to encourage more students and staff to recycle their used batteries. Currently we have collected over sixty pounds of used batteries. As an event that developed from the Environment Club, New Westminster Secondary School is contributing to the protection of our environment by preventing the release of harmful heavy metals.

Battery Recycling Program

Our Wind TurbineFor years the

Environment Club has worked hard fundraising for a residential wind turbine… And it is finally ours! Students and staff are working towards the final step of mounting it to the school for clean power.

Can You Contain It?

“Can You Contain-It” is a student-backed campaign aimed to promote the awareness for the amount of packaging material unnecessarily wasted. A project erupted in New West Secondary, Fraser Heights, Gleneagle, and Rockridge Secondary that encourages students to develop a "Bring-Your-Own" Attitude around cafeterias and restaurants.

Can You Contain It?

NWSS student and co-founder, Bill He

EcoFESTEcoFEST is an event entirely planned by students set for May 4th, 2013 at Moody Park in New Westminster showcasing our project booths, and featuring a live guest band.

Salmon Raise and Release

Pacific salmon make an epic journey defeating all odds to return to their spawning ground to ensure their populations live on. Habitat decimation and pollution, however, are an obstacle that salmon are not able to overcome Our chum salmon are currently in the fry stage of their lives. When they are big enough to survive on their own, we will be releasing them, increasing their chances of surviving to reproduce and helping salmon populations in BC

Students help feed and maintain the salmon

More available funds would give us the opportunity to expand our projects, and create new projects that will help us all

do our part in protecting the environment.

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