Ban the Bottle
SFU alum named Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25
March 2, 2023By: Nathaniel Tok, SFU Student Mireta Strandberg-Salmon, a recent graduate of SFU’s resource and environmental management and dialogue program was recently awarded as a Top 25 Environmentalists under 25. The Peak reached out to Strandberg-Salmon to discuss her time at SFU and what the award means to her. Strandberg-Salmon began her environmental work in high school working to stop the sales of single-use plastic water bottles from vending machines. She continued her initiative at SFU while leading the Ban the Bottle campaign. The group successfully helped to set up 168 water bottle refill stations across the SFU campuses and campaigned…
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Ban the Bottle bars plastic water bottles from campus
March 1, 2021by Karissa Ketter, News Writer A project three years in the making, Ban the Bottle, a collaboration with Re-use for Good, banned plastic water bottles across all SFU campuses. The official phase out of plastic bottles began on January 1, 2021. …
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Board Shorts — October 30, 2020
November 9, 2020Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer An update on the SUB closure Recent CDC updates on the rising COVID-19 cases in British Columbia have prompted a reaction from the SFSS regarding the Student Union Building (SUB). They passed a motion…
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SFU student group aims to ban plastic water bottles on campus
November 26, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor An SFU student group is lobbying to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on Burnaby campus. Ban the Bottle SFU is made up of 15 undergraduate and graduate students, and it is…
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