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Closed petition PE1896: Provide every primary school child in Scotland with a reusable water bottle
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to replace the disposable water bottle provided with primary school lunches with a sustainable, reusable, metal bottle.
Previous action taken
Callum has:
- written to his headteacher, who forwarded his complaint to West Lothian Council who then made the disposable water bottle in school lunches optional
- contacted & received positive responses from several MSPs
- raised over £1,400 to buy reusable water bottles for his school, with additional lids to make his scheme sustainable for the future.
- will have finished walking the entire John Muir Way (134 miles) in order to raise the money above
Background information
Each week schoolchildren are given 250ml disposable plastic water bottles to have with their lunches. Callum (age 7) feels very strongly that this is the wrong thing to do.
Callum has been running his campaign since early 2021 and is very determined to succeed.
He says that you want to help the environment but were wasting more plastic than the weight of one of the pandas at the zoo (estimated per school, per year). He has solved the problem for his school and now wants to help the whole of Scotland.
Many adults have agreed with him and Sue Webber MSP has been particularly helpful.
He says adults should listen to children about the environment and provide the money to buy more water bottles. Shortly, he will have walked 134 miles to prove his point.
He has already achieved a phenomenal amount for a 7 year old and I hope his petition is viewed positively.
This petition was considered by the Scottish Parliament
184 signatures