West Roxbury Saves Energy and West Roxbury Reads Teaches Kilmer Students about Plastic Bags

Students from the learned about how to help the environment thanks to the and on Friday morning. 

Peg Sawyer from the West Roxbury Reads program (and a member of the board of the ) donned a 350-bag outfit, approximately the average of how much one person in America uses in a year, according to WRSE.

Theresa Lynn, from ReadBoston and the West Roxbury Reads program (also a board member of Friends of West Roxbury Library) read the book "10 Things I Can Do to Help My World" to a first-grade class.  

Rickie Harvey of WRSE said students were given reusable bags and decorated them with "earth and enviromental themes after our discussion of ways we could stop using plastic bags in order to help the planet."

Students were encouraged to tell their parents to shop with reusable bags to avoid getting plastic bags.