SAVING the planet by recycling plastics which would otherwise end up in landfills could help a Rugby primary school to win an eco-friendly playground revamp.
Clifton upon Dunsmore Primary School is in the running to win a nationwide recycling contest to win a playground makeover made from recycled plastics.
The school is currently sitting just outside the top 10 in the Recycle Plastic to Make Your School Fantastic competition.
The contest, run by Garnier and TerraCycle, encourages schools to collect personal care and beauty product packaging which is not recycled by kerbside collections, such as caps, pumps and trigger sprays, plastic pots and flexible plastic tubes.
The winning school will be able to choose £10,000 worth of play or gardening equipment made from recycled plastic.
And Clifton Primary is already winning, earning money for the recycling they collect to help save towards interactive whiteboards for classrooms.
Kathryn Hanlon, administrator of the drop-off location at the school, said: “The competition is a great way for the school to not only teach the pupils the importance of recycling and protecting the environment, but also to earn much needed funds to put towards interactive whiteboards.
“We would really like to win the playground as we have been working hard and raising lots of funds for our garden, which is due to open in June. It would be fantastic if we had more equipment.”
Donations of waste flexible single-use mask packaging and plastic film, flexible plastic wipes packaging, personal care and beauty product packaging caps, pumps and trigger sprays, plastic pots and flexible plastic tubes, hair colourant kits (except rigid plastic bottles and cardboard packaging) and plastic roll-on deodorants can be dropped off at the public access collection box at the school on Station Road, Clifton from 9am to 4pm during term time.
The school is also a public drop-off location for TerraCycle’s KP Snacks, Hovis Bread Bags, Pringles, Colgate Oral Care, Nestle Confectionary and EllaCycle Recycling Programmes. These types of waste – which can’t be recycled via the local kerbside recycling system – can also be dropped off at the school.
The competition ends on July 5.
