Environment and Conservation
August 6, 2015

The following is being distributed at the request of the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board:

Media Advisory: Minister to Announce a New Public Education Campaign Promoting Sustainable Waste Management

The Honourable Dan Crummell, Minister of Environment and Conservation and Minister Responsible for the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board (MMSB), will announce details of a new sustainable waste management public education campaign tomorrow (Friday, August 7).

The event will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the Conference Room at Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden located at 306 Mount Scio Road, in St. John's.

Minister Crummell will be joined by Mike Samson, CEO MMSB, and youth participating in the Junior Naturalist Summer Camp at Botanical Garden.

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Media contacts:

Jennifer Collingwood Director of Communications Department of Environment and Conservation 709-729-2575, 689-8605 jennifercollingwood@gov.nl.ca

Jill Thomas Myrick Director of Marketing, Public Education and Communications MMSB 709-757-3696, 689-4795 jmyrick@mmsb.nl.ca

2015 08 06                              2:35 p.m.