The Collect-a-Can Schools Competitions:

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Collect-a-Can operates regional and national school competitions in South Africa. Schools can raise funds for themselves as well as stand a chance to win monthly and annual prizes, while environmental awareness is being created.

These cash prizes to the value of more than R260 000 are sponsored by environmentally concerned companies such as Nampak, Coca-Cola Canners, The South African Breweries and Amalgamated Beverage Industries of which the national winners in two categories each wins R25 000.00.  There is a total of R19 000 to be won monthly.  Apart from the prizes, schools are paid cash for the cans collected.  An approximate one million children in schools throughout Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, Western Cape, Free STate, and North West provinces, are reached through this campaign annually to sensitise youth on the importance of recycling.

This has played an important role in practical environmental education.

Collect-a-Can has joined forces with the MySchool initiative to get the recycling message out to more schools. My School will support Collect-a-Can as a communications partner and will promote the recycling message and educate learners on good waste management habits such as recycling.

For more information on the Schools Competition, please contact the local branch nearest to you.
    

 

How the South African Schools Competition works

The aim is to collect and deliver as many used beverage cans as possible each month to your nearest Collect-a-Can branch (Cape Town, Durban, Vanderbijlpark, Johannesburg and Pretoria).  There are generous monthly branch prizes and fantastic national prizes.  Not only do schools stand a chance to win these prizes, but each school is also paid good rates for every can it recovers.

The competition commences on the 1st of February and ends on the 31st of October annualy. Prize-giving functions for the winning schools are held in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban and North West Province during November.

National Schools Competition: Do you care about the environment you live in? You can be a hero for your school - help your school to raise funds and have fun by taking care of the environment. You and your school stands a chance to win lots of prizes by collecting the most used beverage cans during the year. Competition opens: Your school automatically qualifies for the National Schools competion when you enter for the monthly competition.

Guinness World Record: Let's break the record - show that you care for your environment by teaming up with your schoolmates to see how many cans you can collect in one month. Collect the most cans during the month of October and help Collect-a-Can break the Guinness World Record again this year! Competition opens: The month of October.

Artistic Expression Competition: Do you enjoy drawing or painting? We want to see your drawing or painting about "cans, in perfect harmony with nature".  It's never too early to start getting creative. There are lots of prizes in store for all your creativity and rewards for caring for the environment. This is a national competition open to schools in South Africa only.  Competition opens: 1 February 2010 and closes: 31 May 2010. 

CAN CRAZE Competition: Be creative! Create your own Superman or Barbie doll using used beverage cans. Let your imagination run wild - you can create anything, a television set or your favourite cartoon character. The Eiffel tower was designed by Parktown High School for Girls, who won this competition in 2009. Collect-a-Can will reward your creativity with many exciting prizes. Competition opens: 1 June 2010 and closes: end September 2010.