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Media Highlight: Dalhousie student explains how she plans to keep all her trash this year in a 500 ml jar

Posted by Communications and Marketing on March 23, 2017 in Media Highlights

According to Statistics Canada, Nova Scotia's per capita waste output is the lowest in Canada at 378 kilograms per person, but one Halifax student wants to cut that almost down to zero waste.

Brianna Maxwell, a second-year student in sustainability and community design at Dalhousie University, says she's been trying to reduce her environmental footprint for years. She decided that in 2017, her personal garbage would not go beyond a single 500-millilitre jar.

Read full story (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-student-one-jar-of-waste-1.4029882