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Yolanda Chen (9) STAFF REPORTER

The Environmental Council is a group of students that meet together every Monday to address environmental issues. During their first meeting, they helped by maintaining the school gardens. This week, they discussed the consequences of throwing clothes in landfills.

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A new project that recently began was to spread awareness about the amount of damage throwing out textiles and clothes does to our environment. Textile pollution is the second leading cause of pollution in the world, after oil spills. Every year we throw out 35 thousand Olympic sized swimming pools of garbage, when 80% of that textile could be recycled. And a pair of jeans releases the same amount of greenhouse gas as a car driving 72 km! By reducing the garbage disposed of every year, we can lead to a cleaner environment and a smaller eco-footprint.

At St. Robert, the Environmental Council will be working with Bag2School to collect old clothing and do their part. The council will be handing out garbage bags for the homerooms to put their old clothes in starting Wednesday, October 10th. Rather than donating the clothes to the poor, they will send it to a textile recycling place. They will be collecting old clothes until Tuesday, October 16.