{"id":496,"date":"2019-10-24T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/notredamenow\/?p=496"},"modified":"2019-10-24T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:49:30","slug":"reusable-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/notredamenow\/2019\/10\/24\/reusable-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Reusable Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"

On average 20,000 single use plastic bottles are discarded each year from one high school alone.<\/p>\n

Seven Notre Dame pupils competed in a regional competition in order to make a change that would benefit the future of their school and the environment .\u00a0The idea of the competition was to give young people from the west of Scotland an opportunity to voice their views about how they should deal with popular environmental problems that face our world today. Then the winning school would receive \u00a31000 to make their idea become a reality.<\/p>\n

By noticing the amount of single use plastics highs schools where using , seven pupils from Note Dame came up with the idea of giving everyone in their school re usable water bottles. Which would encourage pupils to re fill one bottle instead of buying numerous bottles, which would dramatically decrease the amount of single use plastics being bought. The seven pupils who were involved in this project are Niav Mckeeman<\/strong>, Aly Gallagher<\/strong>, Sona Kurucova<\/strong>, Ellie Stewart<\/strong>, Yvonne Chan<\/strong>, Hayden Donnelly<\/strong> and Matthew Slaven<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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