OTTAWA – Recycle My Cell, Canada's recycling program for mobile devices and accessories, has announced the winners of the sixth annual Recycle My Cell Student Challenge.
Held each year in conjunction with Waste Reduction Week in Canada, the Challenge sees students from kindergarten to post-secondary collecting as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries.
Students from 75 schools across the country participated in the 2015 edition of the Challenge, which was held from October 19 to November 18. In total, the schools collected more than 2,600 wireless devices along with 308 kilograms of wireless accessories and batteries. The school that collected the most wireless devices in each participating province and territory, based on student population, will receive a $500 donation to support the school's green initiatives.
"Canada's youth continue to demonstrate that they will indeed be the generation of environmental responsibility," said CWTA president and CEO Bernard Lord, in the news release. "Their leadership today will definitely pay great dividends in keeping Canada green for generations to come."
The winning schools in the 2015 Recycle My Cell Student Challenge are:
- Birchwood Intermediate School, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
- Chief Sunrise Education Centre, K'atl'Odeeche First Nation, Hay River, Northwest Territories
- Donald Fraser Memorial School, Plaster Rock, New Brunswick
- École secondaire de Par-en-Bas, Tusket, Nova Scotia
- École Val-des-Ormes, Rosemère, Québec
- Elijah Smith Elementary School, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Malcolm Tweddle School, Edmonton, Alberta
- St. John's-Ravenscourt School, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Sk'elep School of Excellence, Tk'emlúps te Secwepemc, Kamloops, British Columbia
- Warminster Elementary School, Warminster, Ontario
The Recycle My Cell Student Challenge is made possible by the support of the Recycle My Cell Partners: Bell, BlackBerry, Eastlink, Fido, GEEP, GREENTEC, Koodo Mobile, LG Electronics Canada, Lynx Mobility, Microsoft, MTS, Rogers, Samsung Electronics Canada, SaskTel, Sony of Canada, Tbaytel, Telus, Videotron and Virgin Mobile Canada.
