Ontario school board considers removing garbage bins from classrooms [Video]

The Waterloo Region District School Board has paused a short-lived plan to remove garbage bins from inside classrooms and into the hallways in an brief effort to cut down on waste being produced in its schools.

In an interview on Friday, Jeff Pelich, who is president of the ETFO in Waterloo Region, said the WRDSB issued a memo last week to administrators at schools announcing plans to remove the waste bins.

“So the board has decided to remove garbage bins from all classrooms in an effort, they have said, to lessen the impact on landfill sites and reduce the number of garbage receptacles, and also to improve efficiency,” he told Global News.

Days after issuing the memo, however, the school board paused its decision.

On Tuesday, Pelich told Global News that the board had issued a second memo to administrators on Monday which said it had paused the plan, to …