Celebrate our Planet on Earth Day and Every Day

Join BusReady’s Super Green Team! Learn about sustainability, Earth Day, all of BC Transit’s efforts to take care of our planet, and the impact you can make with each bus ride you take.

There are some super activities you can do to show you’re a sustainable superhero!

What is Earth Day?

Around the world, we celebrate and take care of our planet on April 22, a day we call Earth Day. It is a day we can thank our plant and remind everyone that we need to protect it from things that damage it like pollution.

Our incredible planet gives us the resources we need to grow food, build our homes, provide us with energy and so much more. Our planet is amazing, and it needs our help to keep it safe.

What does Sustainability mean?

Imagine you have a garden you are responsible for taking care of and protecting. There are many beautiful plants, flowers, trees, animals and creatures that live in this garden. There are important things you need to do to keep the garden happy and healthy for a long time.

You’ll want to have clean water for the plants, good soil for the plants to grow in, and lots of different plants for bees, butterflies and animals. By doing all these things, you make sure the garden is in good condition and will be enjoyed for a long time.

That’s what sustainability is all about – taking care of things so they last for a long time for everyone to enjoy.

Learn more about Protecting Our Planet

You can read more about what it means for transit to become electric, the impact of keeping buses clean and what less traffic means for the environment.

Do you want to read more about transit sustainability?

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Small Actions Can Equal Big Impact

A small change like taking transit instead of using your car can help reduce air pollution, traffic, noise pollution and use less energy.

Let’s compare the transportation option of taking the bus versus taking a gas-powered car. If 40 people take the bus and 40 people take their own cars, the bus creates fewer greenhouse gases and uses less fuel. With the bus reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the air, that’s like planting a tree.

Check out what each ride over a year looks like!

1 Bus Ride a Week

Trees

1 Round trip bus ride per week =
155.4 kg CO2e or 6 trees planted.

2 Bus Rides a Week

Trees

2 Round trip bus ride per week =
310.7 kg CO2e or 12 trees planted.

5 Bus Rides a Week

Trees

5 Round trip bus ride per week =
776.8 kg CO2e or 30 trees planted.

Round-trip bus rides

With each 10 round-trip bus rides you take, it’s like planting one tree.

Tree planted

Which BusReady Green Team Superhero are you?

Do you want to be part of the BusReady Super Green Team? Take the quiz to find out which superhero you would be.

1 / 5

What can help public transportation be more eco-friendly?

Reusing and recycling their Rider's Guide.

Using less paper or disposable items to get information or pay for the ride.

Adding more charging stations for electric buses and using cleaner biofuels.

2 / 5

What do you think is the best way to reduce your carbon footprint while riding the bus?

Reuse and recycle your rider’s guide.

Use the Umo app to pay for all transit rides.

Ride a bus that uses alternative fuel or runs on electricity.

3 / 5

If you could make an eco-friendly bus stop, what would it have?

Provide recycling bins.

Install solar panels to power lights and signs.

Use sustainable or recycled materials to make the bus stop.

4 / 5

What is the best way to recycle old buses?

Recycle the materials to make new buses or other products.

Donate them to other organizations to reduce waste.

Convert them to run on biofuels.

5 / 5

How would you encourage people to ride transit?

Tell them riding the bus uses less fuel than everyone using their own car.

Tell them BC Transit recycles as much as they can from metal, wood, lightbulbs and batteries.

Tell them buses can run on alternative fuels and electricity.

How is BC Transit Protecting our Province?

Electric Buses

The goal is to reduce emissions by 60% by 2040. BC Transit plans to buy 125 heavy-duty electric buses in the next three years to help get there.

Recycle and Reduce Waste

The Umo App and online schedules mean less paper is used to find your routes. BC Transit has recycling stations for all types of materials including metal, wood, and batteries.

Alternative Fuel

BC Transit uses alternative fuels made from biological materials like vegetable oils, animal fats or waste oils. This type of fuel reduces 90% of greenhouse gases than regular fuel.

Green Activities

Looking for some super stupendous sustainable projects?

Download and show off your sustainable spirit with these activities.

Add some colour to the Earth Day colouring sheet and proudly show you are part of the BusReady Super Green Team!

Download, print and colour the sheet.

Download Activity

You’re part of the BusReady Super Green Team, colour and place all the sustainable actions you can do to help the planet.

Download, print, colour, cut and wear your sustainability headband.

Download Activity

Hop on the Bus and be a Green Hero

Travel on the bus, it’s super cool,
Helps the planet, that’s the rule!
No car fumes, clean air to breathe, we have a healthy planet.
It’s great kids 12 and under ride for free on transit!

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