Students lobby Missoula City Council to consider banning electronic waste at landfill

The city of Missoula may draft a new ordinance banning electronic waste from the local landfill, expanding on national efforts to curb the amount of items discarded by consumers and to increase electronic recycling.

Students from the Missoula International School made the request Wednesday as part of their ongoing research project, which includes finding solutions to today’s trash challenges.

"Our innovative solution is to create a law for Montana that would ban e-waste from landfills and increase e-waste recycling statewide," said 10-year-old McKenna Summers. "This would protect the environment, preserve natural resources and protect wildlife and people."

By Martin Kidston/MISSOULA CURRENT

Full Story: http://www.missoulacurrent.com/government/2016/04/1806/