COVID-19 rules. Cloth masks are now banned and students are required to wear disposable surgical masks provided by the government.The Lester B.
Pearson School Board (LBPSB) says it has handed some 21,000 masks daily and that those masks end up in the garbage when the final bell rings.“Just roughly calculating 100 days till the end of June, we’re looking at 2.1 million masks,” said LBPSB assistant director general, Carol Heffernan.The Quebec government is encouraging schools to collect the masks so they don’t end up in landfills.In a statement, the Ministry of Education said it sent a list of companies that can recycle masks, specifying that the government would absorb the costs.