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 related links below.

Anti-Idling Projects for Students Linked to Curriculum

Anti-Idling School Program

Anti-Idling Message for Students

Sample High School Newsletter Inserts

Sample Elementary School Newsletter Inserts