Ronnie Recycler in Roodepoort schools
Jack and Jill Primary School was one of the high performing schools in the Mpact Recycling Innitiative.
The school along with My School Islamic Educentre and Little Scholars Nursery School are part of Mpact Recycling’s schools paper pick-up programme which allows schools to raise funds while educating young pupils on the importance of recycling and in turn environmental awareness.
Jack and Jill primary school consistently filled up their 500 kilogram container. In February, they collected a total of 642 kg of recycling material. On the 11 March, 200 kg was collected and 130 kg was collected on 7 April.
This nursery is consistently filling up their container which takes up to 500kg.
The company’s mascot, Ronnie Recycler, re-launched into the market in June 2014 together with teams from the schools.
“We were very impressed by the pupils’ recycling activities and we want to encourage them to keep up their recycling efforts, as every little bit helps. Each pupil is provided with a small Ronnie Bag to take home and fill up with recyclable paper based items such as old newspapers, magazines, letters, junk mail, envelopes and cardboard packaging like cereal boxes. They bring these bags back to school every week and place the waste material into a dedicated Ronnie Bank, which is collected on a regular basis,” said Mpact Recycling’s Communications Manager, Donna-Mari Noble.
At each participating school, the Ronnie Recycler school programme is driven by a Green Ambassador appointed from among the pupils and through the involvement of the teachers.
The ambassador’s role is to continually encourage pupils and teachers to collect recycled paper, to establish eco clubs and get their parents involved.
More than 1000 schools already take part in the Mpact Recycling schools programme.
“We’re very excited about this initiative because it has a positive effect at several levels. Not only does it provide a vehicle to dispose of waste paper and cardboard from the pupils’ homes, but it also creates excitement around recycling and getting their school involved. This ultimately, prevents landfills being filled up with waste paper. This initiative also educates the next generation on the importance of recycling so that they will be conscientious recyclers as adults,” said Noble.
For more information visit Mpact Recycling’s website on www.mpactrecycling.co.za or call its toll free number on 0800 022 112.
