Mpact Recycling held its recent awards for schools making change one recycled item at a time consistently. And, Pretoria’s Lynnwood Ridge Primary took the cake again!
South Africa (21 June, 2023)—A lifetime of caring for the environment starts at a young age! Nurturing this philosophy, initiatives like Mpact Recycling’s Ronnie Recycler Schools’ Competitions help encourage schools to think about recycling in a rewarding sense; cultivating the act as a special kind of norm that creates recycling champions.
After a few years of tough competition in the most literal sense (many school’s recycling levels dropped due to the pandemic) 2022’s run saw a revamp of energy from students all over South Africa.
Over 700 000 tonnes of recyclables were collected last year, which is an award in and of itself!
But rewarding the young key players matters too to develop the self-worth associated with caring for the planet. Recognising the top recycling schools for the past year and other efforts over time, Mpact Recycling awarded 33 schools for their commitment to the planet’s cause.
Coming in at first place was Pretoria’s Lynnwood Ridge Primary, a public school that earned first place for last year’s efforts; recycling a whopping 15.822 tonnes of materials!
Other notable recycling go-getters included Reenbog ECD—focused on Gugulethu students and those in its surrounding areas—who scooped up over 7 tonnes of recycled goods.
Not to mention, Craighall Primally also put their recycling passion to the test by coming back swinging by outdoing their 2021 efforts with 10.074 tonnes of litter collected in 2022!
More schools are encouraged to join Mpact’s programme, which actually pays the school for every tonne collected, helping them fund various initiatives like classroom makeovers, new books and veggie gardens, as Yasmeen Adam the post-consumer lead for the schools and communities programme shares.
The more schools do, the more young South Africans act and the more recycling champions there will be! Schools can jump on the recycling bandwagon here!
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