OTTAWA– The winning schools from across Canada who competed in a national recycling challenge for mobile phones and accessories where announced today. The 2011 Recycle My Cell Student Challenge, held in partnership with Waste Reduction Week in Canada, saw Canadian students from kindergarten to post-secondary collecting as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, wireless PDAs, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries.
For 30 days beginning October 17, students from 134 schools across Canada participated in the second annual challenge and collected more than 6,000 wireless devices and close to 600 kilograms of wireless accessories and batteries. Almost twice as many schools stepped up to the Challenge in 2011, bringing in more than 2,000 more devices than were recovered during the first Challenge in 2010.
“The level of enthusiasm and participation by students in the 2011 Challenge was truly amazing,” said Bernard Lord, President and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA).
“These young Canadians have a great understanding of how important programs like Recycle My Cell are to our environment. On behalf of the wireless industry, I want to thank each and every one of them for their leadership.”
The school in each participating province or territory that collected the most cell phones, based on student population, will receive a $500 donation to support the school’s green initiatives, as well as a new smartphone that the Principal will award to a student who has shown outstanding leadership in environmental protection.
The winning schools are:
McKenzie Lake School, Calgary, Alberta
Bench Elementary School, Cowichan Bay, British Columbia
École Lagimodière, Lorette, Manitoba
Saint Mary’s Academy, Edmundston, New Brunswick
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador
Whitney Pier Memorial Junior High School, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Inuksuk High School, Iqaluit, Nunavut
Dante Alighieri Academy (Beatrice Campus), Toronto, Ontario
Colonel Gray Senior High School, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
CPE Le Jardin des Rêves, Saint-Laurent, Québec
Pangman School, Pangman, Saskatchewan
The Recycle My Cell Student Challenge was made possible by the generous support of the Recycle My Cell Partners: Bell, Dell Canada Inc., GEEP Inc., GREENTEC, LG, Lynx Mobility, Mobilicity, Motorola Mobility, MTS, Nokia, Research in Motion, Rogers Communications, Samsung, SaskTel, Sims Recycling Solutions, Sony Ericsson, TBayTel, TELUS, Videotron, Virgin Mobile Canada and WIND Mobile.
