Collect-a-Can School Competition

Organisation: Collect-a-Can
Country: South Africa
Competition closing date: 31 October 2013
Website: Collect-a-Can School Competition 2013

Description: Collect-a-Can operates regional and national school competitions in South Africa. Schools can raise funds for themselves by collecting used cans as well as stand a chance to win monthly and annual prizes, while environmental awareness is being created.

These cash prizes to the value of R788 800 are sponsored by environmentally concerned companies such as Nampak, ArcelorMittal, Coca-Cola Canners, The South African Breweries and Amalgamated Beverage Industries.  There is a total of R388 800 in monthly prizes to be won per annum.  Apart from the prizes, schools are paid cash for the cans collected.  An approximate 250 000 children in schools throughout Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, Western Cape and North West provinces, are reached through this campaign annually to sensitise youth on the importance of recycling.

This has played an important role in practical environmental education.

Collect-a-Can has joined forces with the MySchool initiative to get the recycling message out to more schools. My School supports Collect-a-Can as a communications partner and promotes the recycling message and educates learners on good waste management habits such as recycling.

For more information on the Schools Competition, please contact the local branch nearest to you.

How the South African Schools Competition works
The aim is to collect and deliver as many used beverage cans as possible each month to your nearest Collect-a-Can branch (Cape Town, Durban, Vanderbijlpark, Johannesburg and Pretoria).  There are generous monthly branch prizes and fantastic national prizes.  Not only do schools stand a chance to win these prizes, but each school is also paid good rates for every used beverage can it recovers.

The competition commences on the 1st of February and ends on the 31st of October annually. Prize-giving functions for the winning schools are held in Gauteng, Cape Town, and Durban during November.

National Schools Competition:
Do you care about the environment you live in? You can be a hero for your school – help your school to raise funds and have fun by taking care of the environment. Your school stand a chance to win lots of prizes by collecting the most used beverage cans during the year. Competition opens: 1st February through until 31st October annually and you can enter on a monthly basis.  Your school automatically qualifies for the National Schools competion when you enter for the monthly competition.