Sawban wins £500 for school (From Asian Image)

Sawban wins £500 for school

4:22pm Wednesday 4th February 2009

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A ten-year-old has won a donation of £500 after winning a recycling competition.

Sawban Patel, age 10, from St Stephen’s C of E Primary School has won a £500 donation for the school after creating the winning entry in a local Tesco Recycling Competition to promote the launch of the brand new Recycling Centre at the Tesco Supertore in Blackburn.

Local primary school children were asked to create a special snappy slogan or poem about the benefits of recycling and caring for the environment.

As well as the £500 donation to the school, Sawban also won a £100 Tesco Gift Card each for his creation and will have the entry displayed on the Tesco Recycling Centre at the store.

Sawban, along with fellow classmates and teachers, Lesley Brown and Andrew Nicholson, were invited along to the store to collect the cheque donation and to cut the ribbon to declare the Recycling Centre officially launched.

Lesley said, “I would like to congratulate Sawban on winning the competition and to thank the store for this generous donation to our school. We are to hold a meeting with the children to discuss ideas for what the money can be used for.”

Deputy Store Manager, Graham Holden, said, “We are very pleased to be able to make a donation to the school, whilst also helping children to become aware of the benefits of recycling.”

The Tesco Recycling Centre separates and eats up most household waste including aluminium and steel cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles and jars, and compliments existing recycling facilities on site such as separate units for the removal of cardboard, shoes, newspaper etc.

The automated hi-tech Recycling Centre compacts waste material and will more than double the amount of recycling at the store and revolutionise the way shoppers recycle – making it quicker, easier, more convenient and more fun as part of an ongoing environmental commitment by Tesco who have pioneered the system and are investing millions in the nationwide green campaign.

When customers drop waste material one item at a time into the new “intelligent” machine, it is identified by a high quality laser reader located in the user station; buckets then carry this material to a conveyor system which deposits the items in material-specific bins. As they are deposited in the bins they are smashed, crushed and granulated – so glass is smashed, plastic is granulated and cans are crushed.

Also, customers recycling aluminium cans will get 1 Tesco Club Card point for every two cans they recycle!

Make it a green Christmas and get down to the Tesco Recycling Centre to recycle your waste today, it’s so easy!

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