Students can help cut down on single-use plastics

MHK believes pupils have good ideas to reduce waste

Pupils can help identify ways to cut down the amount of single-use plastic used by the Island's schools.

That's a suggestion from one MHK seeking details from the Education Minister about the advice his department gives to schools on the issue.

Graham Cregeen will give an update at this month's sitting of Tynwald.

Arbory, Castletown and Malew MHK Jason Moorhouse, who was a teacher prior to his election to the House of Keys, believes students have some promising ideas: