Press release - 15 Mar 2010

Enfield students’ winning recycling poster to appear across the borough

A group of Enfield students are behind a new campaign designed to help reduce waste, seeing their poster design adorning recycling collection vehicles and advertising boards across the borough.

The five students from Chace Community College, aged 14, are encouraging residents to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ after triumphing in a challenge day designed to help raise awareness about reducing waste, held last December.

The ‘no more waste’ challenge day, organised by recycling and resource management company SITA UK and Enfield Enterprise Business Partnership (EBP), saw 90 students from three local schools compete for prizes and learn about how to reduce waste.

As part of the main prize, the winning team were promised that a poster they created to encourage others to reduce waste would be professionally designed and used by the council throughout Enfield as part of its waste minimisation programme.

In partnership with Enfield Borough Council, 10 waste collection vehicles have now been fitted with special livery reflecting the students’ design and will be seen collecting recycling across the borough for the next six weeks.

The posters will also appear on large advertising boards in high streets and roadsides throughout Enfield, and A3 versions have also been distributed to local schools and libraries.

Marek Gordon, Director, SITA UK, who chaired the ‘no more waste’ challenge in December and helped judge, said:

“I was very impressed with the professionalism of the winning team on the Challenge day and think that the final poster, based on the students’ original design, is really exciting. We wanted to offer the students the chance to produce something that could be used in the real world and are delighted that we have been able to work with Enfield Council to have the posters displayed across the Borough for all to see.”

Councillor Glynis Vince, Enfield’s Cabinet Member for Education and Children’s Services, who also judged the event that saw Chace Community take the winning spot, said:

“I look forward to seeing the winning design as I go around the borough in the coming weeks. The students worked hard on the challenge day and learnt a lot about recycling and waste management. I am pleased to see that the final poster design will help spread that message to everyone that lives in the borough.”

Enfield’s Mayor, Councillor Eleftherios Savva, who attended the launch event at Chace Community School, said:

“It is great to see the winning poster on the sides of our recycling collection vehicles, which pass through every street in Enfield. This means the whole community will get to see how our young people are passionate about saving our environment."

At the launch of the winning poster design on 12 March, Marek Gordon announced SITA UK’s plans to hold the ‘no more waste’ challenge in other London boroughs. Chace Community School will be able to compete in the Grand Final, to be run by SITA UK at the end of 2010.

Back row, from left to right: Councillor Eleftherios Savva, Mayor of Enfield; Councillor Glynis Vince, Enfield’s Cabinet Member for Education and Children’s Services; Marek Gordon, SITA UK Director, and Peter O'Brien, Manager of Enfield EBP.

Front row, from left to right: Stephanie Killick; Elle Savage; Yasmin Cazeau; Robyn Morgan-Campbell; Matthew Sharman - all Chace Community College students.