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Anti-Idling Awareness Campaign Comes to
Schools
Since the launch of a year-long Anti-Idling Campaign last
October, the City of Mississauga and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) have been
working together to encourage Mississauga residents to stop unnecessary vehicle
idling. Now the campaign is coming to schools.
In April, Anti-Idling information kits were distributed to
all schools in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District and Peel District School
Boards. These kits include information about the amount of damage one idling
car does to the environment, and other anti-idling awareness activities linked
to math, science and language curriculum. Because engine idling is such an
unconscious act, the hope is that aware youngsters will remind parents to turn
off the car when parked.
At the same time, University of Toronto at Mississauga
students approached vehicles stopped outside various Mississauga elementary
schools asking drivers to place a decal on their window to indicate a
commitment to stop idling their vehicles while parked.
To learn more about the information in the Anti-Idling
School Kits, see the following:
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