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Waste awareness school competition 2008:
Winners announced
This feature was added on 8th August 2008
After a successful second run of WasteAware's 'Talking Trash' school plays, Mount Grace School in Potters Bar emerged triumphant, scooping the £1,000 first prize in the waste-awareness raising competition for Hertfordshire secondary school students.
WasteAware commissioned CragRats Theatre Company for a second year to perform their highly entertaining and educational play and workshop in secondary schools across Hertfordshire, which focused on the 'Three Rs': Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
As part of the workshop, students were encouraged to generate ideas for a waste awareness campaign to promote the Three Rs message to the rest of their school, and to their friends and families.
Students at Mount Grace decided to hold an assembly to educate the rest of their school on the waste and environment-related issues facing Hertfordshire today. This was followed up by a non-uniform day, when students brought in any unwanted clothes and shoes for recycling. The money raised was donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, and to the Head Teacher's Benevolent Fund.
The competition runners-up were St Michael's Catholic High School in Garston, North Watford, and John F. Kennedy Catholic School in Hemel Hempstead.
Both schools produced excellent projects, and with the result too close to call, they were each awarded joint second prize, receiving £500 each.
St Michael's made their school canteen environmentally friendly by eliminating non-reusable plastic and polystyrene cups, plates and utensils, to reduce the amount of waste generated by the school.
After carrying out an environmental impact assessment, John F. Kennedy School set up a paper recycling scheme, a cardboard composting project, and an action plan to reduce paper use in the school.