Mireta Strandberg-Salmon, 23-year-old Burnaby resident, named winner in Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25.
She was only 15 when she challenged the status quo with a school-wide campaign to demand a ban on sales of single-use plastic water bottles from vending machines at her high school.
Even franchisees like Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Subway, Blenz Coffee and INS Market convenience store on the campus have eliminated the use of bottled beverages — a huge feat for the 23-year-old Strandberg-Salmon. “And I was surrounded by all these problems,” she said. “It gets overwhelming, for a lot of young people, so I wanted to contribute to the solutions.”
When she was in Grade 8, she joined the Unity in Green environmental club in her school. As years passed, she initiated the change for banning sale of single-use plastic water bottles at the school as part of her social justice class with then-professor and now-Councillor Daniel Tetrault. Her student-led action plan involved collaborating with the school administration at Moscrop. As the first step, students circulated a petition to remove plastic water bottles from vending machines at the school.
Inspiring future generations This journey continued on to SFU with the similar bottle-ban initiative, which led to eliminating the sale of more than 260,000 single-use plastic water bottles annually, according to SFU's report.
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