Bere Regis First School wins recycling competition

Bere Regis First School is celebrating after winning the latest schools textiles competition.

Schools across the county were challenged to collect the most textiles per head at each school, to encourage pupils to think about waste reduction and recycling.

Collecting a massive 1,723 kilos of textiles, which is more than 25 kg per child, Bere Regis First School raised more than £1,000 in prize money. The school is planning to use this money for various projects including maintaining the garden and improving the playground.

Runners up for the competition were Cheselbourne First School and St James First School, Gaunts Common, Wimborne.

Turn textiles into treasure

Do you want to be named the best school in Dorset for textile recycling?

All schools in the county are being encouraged to take part in a fantastic competition to turn textiles into treasure. The challenge is to collect the highest amount of textiles per child in each school.

The winning school will be awarded £600 for each tonne collected.

This is a great yet simple way to help the environment, promote and encourage textile reuse and recycling and raise funds for extra resources for schools.

Here’s a list of accepted textiles:

• Clean clothes
• Sheets and towels
• Paired shoes
• Belts and handbags
• Curtains
• Fabric and blankets
• Soft toys

The good news is that each participating school will receive £300 per tonne of textiles collected.

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Winners go from recycling to cycling

Congratulations to Lulworth Camp Pre-School, the winners of the schools textile recycling competition.

Collecting a brilliant 17kgs of textiles per child, they beat off strong competition from schools across Dorset to be named textile recycling champions.

The school will be using the prize money towards some new bikes for the children and plants for their garden.

Second place went to Piddle Valley CE VA First School in West Dorset and Sturminster Marshall First School in East Dorset came third.

Sponsors, TRC Limited, have been so impressed by the amount of textiles collected that it is running another schools textiles recycling competition from January 2010 until the end of June 2010.