Children turn trash to treasure with Croydon Council (From Green Guardian)

Children turn trash to treasure with Croydon Council

2:00pm Wednesday 21st July 2010

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Croydon Council has run a competition to make models out of trash.

The town centre’s iconic Clocktower has been recreated out of rubbish as part of the competition, designed to get young people thinking about better ways of disposing of their waste.

The three winning entries now form part of the council’s ‘treasures from trash’ exhibition which is running until October 30 inside the Katharine Street Clocktower.

‘Recycle for Croydon’ is the borough’s ongoing campaign to cut down on the amount of waste that gets sent to landfill.

Croydon Council’s recycling awareness team visit residents and schools to show how easy it is to switch from bins, fit to bursting, to boxes full of paper, glass and tins all ready to be turned back into useful products.

The team provided the prizes for the competition and the winners walked away with a range of eco-gadgets, ranging from solar-powered MP4 player’s, to a wind-up MP3 player and a solar-powered weather station.

The first place prize went to brothers Talon and Ayrton Dawkins, aged nine and six with the runners-up, Erin McDonagh, eight, and Courtney Jordan, nine, scooping second and third place.

Sara Bashford, cabinet member for customer services, culture and sport, said: “Treasures from trash is perfect for families looking for constructive things to do over the holidays.

"The exhibition is free and it’s packed with games and activities that explore what happens to the stuff we throw away.”

This exhibition has been produced in collaboration with ‘knowtrash’, an organisation which consists of film editor and photographer, Neil Thomson, and children’s’ author and educator, Ruth Thomson.

More information about them can be found at knowtrash.com or museumofcroydon.com.

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