Plastics|SA’s annual Clean-Up & Recycle Competition is under way and the call for entries is open. Each year this competition attracts entries from those at schools and organisations across South Africa who are eager to share the success of how they encouraged their fellow pupils, co-workers and local neighbourhoods to get rid of litter and start recycling where they live, play and learn.
“This will be the sixth year that PlasticsSA coordinates this inter-schools competition that forms part of Clean-Up South Africa Week, which takes place from 10 to 15 September 2012,” says Plastics|SA Sustainability Director Douw Steyn.
“The aim of this inter-schools competition is to create awareness of plastics among children and educate them about the positive attributes of plastics, and the responsible use and disposal thereof. As future custodians of the Earth, they have the chance to make a difference in their homes, schools and environment,” Steyn says.
There are four categories that schools and organisations can submit entries to. The first category encourages schools or communities to draw up a marketing and action plan to clean up a local river, dam or beach, the second category encourages engaging with local municipalities and a local recycling entrepreneur during a recycling initiative, the third category requires a school to organise an exciting clean-up and recycling event within their local community, or at a local river, dam or beach and the fourth category encourages communities (at home, at the office, at an organisation) to initiate or support clean-up and recycling activities.
For each category, schools and organisations have to ensure that they involve teachers, pupils, community members, municipality, local businesses and the media in their campaigns.
Great prizes up for grabs
Sponsors for the competition are Plastics|SA, Sasol, Pick ‘n Pay and Eco-Bin. There are amazing prizes to be won, such as cash prizes of up to R5 000 for individual primary and high school learners, as well as appliances and Eco-Bins for the winning school.
In addition to the exciting cash prizes, all first-prize winners (learners plus one educator/teacher) will be treated to a fun-filled weekend and prize giving in Cape Town during the last weekend of October 2012.
To find out more about plastic recycling, identification and clean-ups, visit the various Plastics|SA websites (www.plasticsinfo.co.za; www.cleanup-sa.co.za; www.recyclingday-sa.co.za), where entry forms, rules of the competition and more information can be downloaded.
Our annual clean-up is coming!
The Two Oceans Aquarium, with the aid of Plastics|SA, will be hosting its annual International Coastal Clean-Up Day on 15 September. Contact Katja Rockstroh on education@aquarium.co.za or 021 418 3823 on how to join this initiative.
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