Schools Compete to be Recycling Heroes

RECENTLY five local schools have entered a ‘Battle Of The Schools’ competition that aims to have environmental benefits.

‘Battle of the Schools’, an initiative organised by Express Recycling, has an objective to help reduce the environmental impact that our cans and bottles are having on our environment and marine life.

Express Recycling have seven sites across Queensland with recently opening a new Hervey Bay site.

“Our focus has been on the schools because that is where the change is for future generations looking after our environment”, say Business Development Manager Nikki Mullen.

It is a competition between schools in the local area to compete for the prestigious title of the best overall School Recycling Hero. The participating schools get to raise money through the initiative by simply recycling their schools’ eligible containers and encouraging their wider community to help contribute and support the cause.

The competition not only has prestigious award of being the ‘Recycling School Hero’ for their region, but there were also two $500 cash prizes awarded, donated by the organiser Express Recycling.

The winning schools were awarded this prize who had been judged to have the most eligible containers collected and recycled.

The school that won the most containers collected was Xavier Catholic College with 4,219 units collected over the duration of the competition (Terms 2 & 3).

The school that won the most containers collected with community support, determined by customers from the depot who put their tickets towards a school, was Howard State School with 138,320 containers.

Kikki Mullen says the feedback has been excellent and more schools have already engaged with the program ready for next year’s competition.

Express Recycling’s moto is ‘small change, big difference’. Our local students are certainly leading the way.