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The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
The sun shone brightly on our Environment Club this Wednesday as they trekked to nearby Shawnigan Creek to undertake their annual shoreline cleanup, garbage bags in hand. Shawnigan’s E-Club has long been a proud participant in The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, a decades-old national conservation program aimed at keeping Canadian shorelines garbage-free. Our crew typically concentrates on the outflow section of Shawnigan Creek, mere minutes from the Shawnigan campus.
Our tireless E-Club removed over 750 pieces of garbage from this small portion of our local watershed. The usual suspects were found along the shoreline, such as bottles, cans, cigarette butts, and food wrappers. Team members even waded into the water to retrieve some larger items! After thoroughly cleaning up the shoreline, students sorted through the collected litter and recycled all they could.
Thank you, E-Club, for continuing to care for our local environment, one garbage bag-full at a time!
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Our tireless E-Club removed over 750 pieces of garbage from this small portion of our local watershed. The usual suspects were found along the shoreline, such as bottles, cans, cigarette butts, and food wrappers. Team members even waded into the water to retrieve some larger items! After thoroughly cleaning up the shoreline, students sorted through the collected litter and recycled all they could.
Thank you, E-Club, for continuing to care for our local environment, one garbage bag-full at a time!
We acknowledge with respect the Coast Salish Peoples on whose traditional lands and waterways we live, learn and play. We are grateful for the opportunity to share in this beautiful region, and we aspire to healthy and respectful relationships with those who have lived on and cared for these lands for millennia.
Shawnigan Lake School is an independent co-educational boarding school for ages 13 –18 on Canada’s beautiful West Coast. Our diverse, interdisciplinary and innovative programming helps shape the next generation of global leaders.
