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27/11/2006 - Points make prizes in recycling for school initiative

School children across Cumbria are being encouraged to recycle rubbish and turn it into computers for their schools and rewards for themselves.

The Recycling Rewards for Schools scheme aims to increase household recycling and is being run by Resource Cumbria - the strategic partnership between Cumbria County Council and the six district councils.

The scheme involves encouraging children to get their families, friends and neighbours to sign pledges to recycle more of their domestic waste. 

As friends and families honour their pledges by recycling their household waste the school collects points according the number of pledges gathered and the amount of waste recycled in kerbside schemes and at Household Waste Recycling Centres.

The points can then be turned into useful prizes for school such as musical instruments, computers and digital cameras. The school in each district that collects the most pledges will also win £1,000.

There are also individual incentives for students to collect as many pledges as possible - for every two pledges collected pupils can have a Recycling Rewards for Schools pen, ruler, pencil or pencil sharpener. For every ten they can get a pencil case and the pupil with the most pledges overall will win a digital camera.

The scheme follows the good work of a successful national recycling for schools initiative last year. Resource Cumbria's own scheme will run in primary schools around the county from November this year to March 2007.

Jack Richardson, county council spokesman on waste management, said: "This is a great scheme. It pushes all the right buttons because it helps get households in Cumbria recycling more of their waste. It also gets school children involved in recycling for the environment and at the same time they will be encouraging a generation of adults to change their behaviour and get to grips with the issue of waste and what to do with it."

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