Mangalore: Mount Carmel School Wins All-India Contest for Waste Paper Collection

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
With Inputs from Media Release

Mangalore, Jan 7: Mount Carmel Central School in the city has won the 'Grand Banyan Project' all-India competition for the most innovative campaign for paper collection in south India region.

About 300 schools from across the country participated in the project, which was aimed at contributing towards saving the environment and helping less advantaged children with notebooks made from recycled paper. The winners in the most innovative campaign category were selected region-wise (north, south, west and east).

The students of Mount Carmel Central School enthusiastically collected waste paper for this project. They collected the waste paper in two phases - first phase on September 27 and 28, 2011, and the second phase on November 21 and 22, 2011.

All the students from kindergarten to class X actively participated in this project. Many of the parents also joined hands with the school and enthusiastically collected waste paper from their houses/firms/shops and neighbourhoods and sent them to the school with their wards.

The school had announced prizes for the classes that collect the maximum kilogrammes of waste paper as an incentive to make the students earnest and enthusiastic about this project and collect more paper. Accordingly, class III B (33 students) collected a whopping 145 kg and class VII A (22 students) collected 117 kg of waste paper.

The paper collection was as follows:

First phase - 1107 kg

second phase - 649 kg

Total collection: 1756 kg (by 713 students from kindergarten to class X)

About the Project

The Grand Banyan Project, an initiative of the British Council in collaboration with the NGO I Love My Mother Earth (ILMME) Foundation, had schools from all over India taking part in one of the biggest paper recycling projects and contribute towards saving the environment and helping a huge number of less advantaged children with notebooks made from recycled paper.

The contest was conducted over a period of four months. Through the different components of the project students demonstrated their exemplary work - by conducting rallies, wall painting competitions, making dresses from newspaper for a fashion show, generating awareness in community on the importance of recycle and reuse.

Apart from the most innovative campaign, the contest was also held in categories like highest per capita volume of paper (per region), cleanest day drive (per region) campaign involving international partner (2 prizes - all India), and cover page design (per region).