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South African schools set Guinness Record for recycling
South Africa News.Net
Thursday 8th November, 2007 (IANS)
In a conservation awareness programme school children in Gauteng and the Western Cape provinces of South Africa have set a Guinness world record by collecting some two million steel cans for recycling.
The programme was carried out, ahead of Guinness World Record Day Thursday, in association with conservation promoters like Collect-a-Can, MySchool and Pan Macmillan during the past one month, South African news agency BuaNews reported Thursday.
Guinness World Records adjudicator, Nadine Causey, attended the ceremony that concluded the campaign.
Funani Mojono, managing director of Collect-a-Can, said the two million cans collected for recycling was just below 10 percent of total production during the past year and said as much as 90 percent of estimated steel cans produced each year could be given to recycling provided similar efforts are put forward by other schools.
'This is phenomenal given the spread of the competition, we could achieve 90 percent recovery rate if everyone put in an effort similar to the one put in by these schools. We would like to thank all participating schools,' he said.
This project will run again next year, and the intent is to involve other provinces, showing children across the country how important it is to protect the environment and the part they can play in doing so, he said.
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