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Tuesday July 22, 2008

Schools giving their best shot in recycling contest


OUT of 37 schools from the Shah Alam district, SK TTDI Jaya and SMK Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah are front- runners in the primary and secondary school categories of the “Kempen Kitar Semula F&NCC & MBSA 2008”.

The programme enters its final month and so far, SK TTDI Jaya, which won second place in last year’s campaign is determined to become this year’s champion as it leads the primary school category with a staggering 7,518kg of recyclable items.

However, they cannot afford to ease off the pace as SK Seksyen 9 (4th place winner, 2007) and SK Seksyen 19 are hot on its heels with a collection of 7,346kg and 6,777kg respectively. Last year, SMK Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah only won the Special Award for the highest collection of plastics.

With a current collection of 1,795kg, the secondary school is aiming to dethrone the 2007 defending champion, SMK Seksyen 11, who are not far behind in second place with 1,519kg.

Doing our bit: Students of SMK Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah working together to make the recycling campaign a success.

The school with the highest weight of recyclable items collected in each category will win RM1,300 in cash.

Second place will yield RM1,100 while third place will get RM900\, fourth place RM800 and fifth place RM700.

Schools in sixth to tenth place for each category will not go home empty-handed as they will receive a consolation prize of RM200 each. Meanwhile, primary and secondary schools that accumulate the most aluminium and plastic, in terms of weight, will also bag special awards of RM600 for each category.

F&NCC managing director James Teo said he was impressed with the efforts made by the students in making the campaign a success.

Full cooperation: SMK Seksyen 24 (2 headmistress Mariam Husin (yellow tudung) helping teachers and students sort out the recyclable items.

“These initial collection figures are encouraging and we are proud of these students. We find the students enthusiastic about the campaign and as such, they have invested much time and effort to do their part for the environment,” Teo said.

“We are confident that we will be able to surpass last year’s total collection of over 98,000kg if the students continue at this pace.

“But more importantly, we hope this campaign will help them identify with many of the environmental issues we face globally and they will learn that their actions, however small, can bring about change.”

The campaign kicked off on May 1 and will end on July 31. The programme, which first ran last year, is designed to inculcate the recycling habit among schoolchildren.

Winning schools will be announced at a prize-giving ceremony scheduled next month.

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