17 schools sign up to recycling at this year's Basildon Festival - 13 July 2004
Basildon Council's recycling team are supporting local schools throughout the District who are competing hard for part of a £50,000 prize fund from Yellow Pages in a national schools recycling campaign.Seventeen schools have signed up with the Council to compete in this year's Yellow Woods Challenge, a simple, educational and fun environmental campaign run by Yellow Pages and the Woodland Trust working with Basildon District Council.
Schoolchildren simply bring old Yellow Pages directories to school for recycling and those collecting the most directories per pupil win cash prizes. For every pound awarded to schools a matching pound is given to the Woodland Trust to help keep the UK's native woodland alive.
Basildon District Council is organising this year's Challenge and is encouraging schools in the area to recycle old directories, featuring walking fingers on the cover, when the new directory is delivered. Schools can win up to £300 locally and then compete nationally for the chance to win up to £2,000.
The Yellow Woods Challenge 2003/04 aims to build on last year's success, which involved nearly 250,000 schoolchildren from across the UK, including 5,076 schoolchildren from Basildon.
All participating schools are given free environmental educational materials, which help bring recycling and woodland conservation messages to life in the classroom.
Local schools will be collecting old directories from September 1 to September 21, 2004 to be recycled into [END PRODUCT] by [END USER].
