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Reducing School Bus Emissions: One Simple Solution
By the Care2 Staff.
So maybe your community isn’t ready to convert your school buses to biodiesel. There is still one free and simple way to reduce some of the toxic pollution and emissions from school buses across the nation.
Idling school buses impact the environment and our children’s health. Request that your fleet of buses turn their motors off while they wait for school to let out.
Read this great article from the EPA.
Figure out how much your school would save if your buses stopped idling. (For example, if a fleet of 10 buses stopped idling for 15 minutes, it would save 225 gallons of fuel per year AND reduces the carbon footprint significantly.)
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here in New Zealand lots of parents have started a walking bus.parents on a rota system carry a sigh and pick up children on their route to school.hence no cars no buses and most importantly supervised children.works well in alot of areas and is growing in popularity.
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This is an easy solution...everyone should be doing this
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I wish I'd know about this when my kids were in school. It is a good suggestion so I will pass it on to the elementary school I do volunteer work for...thanks!
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Excellent suggestion! Not only will I start working on this in my local school districts, but it's something to approach with my town's public transit system, as well as the system in Seattle. Thanks so much!!
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Taking action now
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Good ideas...I will pass them along to my principal.
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Just for the record I drive a school bus in Lake County, Florida and we already do this. We were told 2 years ago to not sit and idle for more than 5 minutes. For a couple different reasons actually. Conserving fuel, emissions from the exhaust plus the busses park very close together and the exhaust from one bus goes into the bus behind it and causes harm to the children because they breathe it in. So we have on county out of thousands doing in already......
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Why not add cars and trucks to the list?
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Fantastic idea more people need to (literally) get on board with!
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