| Popularly known as e-waste, electronic waste or the | | | | Tomorrow Program. They shared how they felt |
| Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), | | | | about e-wastes and showed such through art works, |
| the term is directed to obsolete, discarded, broken | | | | essays, poetry and letters. Their artworks of |
| electronic and electrical devices, which almost all | | | | stockpiled e-waste that are painted and written with |
| families are guilty of throwing out. One of the popular | | | | their concerns and opinions are displayed at the |
| ways of disposing old and battered phones, TVs, | | | | Schad Gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) all |
| laptops and computers is through landfills. Another | | | | throughout last month. |
| way is exporting still usable electronic and electrical | | | | Araby Porter, one of the Grade 6 teachers, said that |
| gadgets to developing countries. | | | | the program caused a big impact on the pupils with |
| And that is where the problem begins. The United | | | | regards to their thinking and re-thinking about the |
| Nations Environment Program reports that 50 tons of | | | | issue on e-waste. She also believes that the Weston |
| electronic wastes are being thrown each year. In the | | | | Leaders of Tomorrow Program served as an |
| United States, reports say that 70% of landfills are | | | | eye-opener for the pupils on how critical the problem |
| filled with e-waste. With this very high percentage | | | | on e-waste is. Penny Lam, also a Grade 6 teacher, |
| and the fact that e-gadgets are part of everyday | | | | expresses her admiration of the artworks that her |
| living, in comes the Weston Leaders of Tomorrow | | | | pupils did. She said that her pupils have created a |
| Program which promotes awareness of e-waste and | | | | magnificent work and conveyed a message on how |
| the threats to health that come with it. This is | | | | important the issue of e-waste is. The students, on |
| supported by The Conservation Foundation of | | | | the other hand, are also very enthusiastic about the |
| Greater Toronto, TRCA and The W. Garfield Weston | | | | campaign. And with that, the pupils are thinking of a |
| Foundation. | | | | more in-depth project, a research project on |
| Two Grade 6 classes from Sixteenth Avenue Public | | | | e-waste. |
| School in Richmond Hill, together with their teachers, | | | | Aside from artworks made from pile of e-wastes, |
| launched a drive to address the global problem. The | | | | make a statements using Cricut expression can also |
| pupils took part and rendered their views regarding | | | | be done. Look for Cricut information and have your |
| e-waste by participating in the Toronto and Region | | | | say about WEEE. |
| Conservation's Weston Environmental Leaders of | | | | |