Get involved this Recycle Week and Gloucestershire schools could win £1000 worth of garden centre vouchers!
Across the country schools have been asked to take part in Recycle Week (21st - 27th June) which this year focuses on waste electricals.
Three out of four people have broken, old or unwanted electrical items lying around doing nothing and we want our schools to help us make them useful again. Many of those seemingly useless items contain important plastics and metals which can be recycled and re-used to make new stuff. For example, just one toaster could provide enough steel to make 25 new cans.
Every time someone recycles a small electrical items at one of the six Household Recycling Centres in the county during Recycle Week they will receive a token which can then be registered online using the URL printed on the token.
To register your token online click here.
- Swindon Road, Cheltenham
- Fosse Cross, Nr Cirencester
- Oak Quarry, Nr Coleford
- Hempsted, Nr Gloucester
- Pyke Quarry, Nr Horsley
- Wingmoor Farm, Nr Bishops Cleeve
This is a very quick and easy process; but some people may wish to take the token to school to register on their behalf. The schools with the most Rewards per pupil head in each region will win prizes of £500 worth of garden centre vouchers. The primary and secondary school with the most Rewards overall will win prizes of £1000 of garden centre vouchers. In Gloucestershire we are very grateful to May Gurney who are also sponsoring 6 District prizes of £50.
Winners will be announced in week commencing 19th July.
The photo above shows St John's School in Coleford with items they are eagerly waiting to recycle during June 21 - 27th at their local recycling centre.
In Gloucestershire the following schools signed up to participate before the closing date of May 21st:
- Charlton Kings Infant School
- Paternoster School
- Withington C of E Primary School
- Bourton on the Water Primary School
- Cirencester Junior School
- North Cerney Primary School
- Powells Primary School
- Cranham C of E Primary School
- Elmbridge Infant School
- Elmbridge Junior School
- The Milestone School
- Newnham St Peters
- Severnbanks School
- Soudley School
- St John's C of E Primary School
- St Matthew's C of E Primary School
- Gotherington School
- Arthur Dye Primary school
- Leckhampton C of E Primary School
- Pitville School
- St Marks School
- Swindon Village Primary School
- The Cheltenham Ladies College
- Linden Primary School
- St Peters RC High School and Sixth Form
- Severn Vale School
- Newnham St Peters School
- Staunton and Corse C of E Primary School
- Ellwood Primary School
- Newent Community School
- Uplands Community Primary School
- Stroud Valley Primary School
- Tewkesbury School
- St Anthonys School
- Pillowell School
02 June 2010