Nova Scotia Recycles Contest Prizes
Over $55,000 in cash and prizes is available to be won! This equates to approximately$7,100 in each of Nova Scotia’s seven waste management regions!
Winning and runner-up students in grades primary to eleven receive great prize packages which may include Mountain Equipment Coop backpacks, Empire Theatre movie passes, recycled pop bottle t-shirts, recycled cardboard pens, recycled plastic binders and more. Plus, the schools of winning students receive $500 cash and the schools of runners-up receive $250! What a great contribution toward a greening project!
Scholarships are available in the grade 12 category. Winners in each of the 7 solid waste management region receive $1,500 while runners-up receive $750
scholarships. In addition, a $5,000 scholarship is awarded to the Grade 12 student with the best essay in the province.
The BEST prize is awarded to everyone—a chance to take action
and learn the importance of keeping Nova Scotia clean by reducing,
reusing, recycling and composting!
For more information on the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest, please contact
Alanna McPhee, Manager, Education at (902) 897-3252 or amcphee@rrfb.com.
Winning students at the 2008 Nova Scotia Recycles Contest region 5 celebration
