Press Release

WINNING WINDOW DESIGNS UNVEILED AT RECYCLING CENTRE

30 APRIL 2007

Image attached – Mayor of Camden Cllr Jill Fraser with competition winner Grace O’Flaherty and recycling mascot Regis.

The winning design for a recycling-themed window created by 10 and 11 year old students was unveiled by Mayor of Camden Cllr Jill Fraser last week (25 April 2007).

Students Grace O’Flaherty aged 10, from Cavendish School (Inverness Street, NW1) and Anmol Patel aged 11, from South Hampstead Junior School (Netherhall Gardens, NW3) beat around 250 others from primary and secondary schools across the borough in a competition to design images for the window. 

The designs – showing a friendly recycling bin and a call to save the planet – will now be a permanent feature at Camden Council’s Regis Road Recycling Education Centre.  The aim of the competition was to encourage children to think creatively about recycling and come up with exciting visual ways of getting the message across.

Mayor of Camden Cllr Jill Fraser said:  “The students have come up with some wonderful designs that will welcome visitors to the recycling education centre.  Well done to them for showing how we can reduce, reuse and recycle our rubbish in such a bright and lively way.”

Student Grace O’Flaherty said: “I'm now a lot greener. I recycle more and I've bought a book called 'A Thousand and One Ways to Be Greener' which has given me even more ideas on how to be green.”

Cavendish School Science Coordinator Ruth Thomas said: “The competition was a great kick start to our 'Green Warrior Project' this year. Each week the children and staff would decide how we could be more environmentally friendly at school and at home. We switched off unused lights, used less water to clean our teeth, put 'Hippos' in our toilet systems and made more of an effort to walk to school.”

The Regis Road Recycling Education Centre opened in September 2006, creating a space for school and community groups to learn more about reducing, reusing and recycling their waste and what they can do to help their local environment. 

For more information on recycling in Camden see www.camden.gov.uk/recycling