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Canadian Students Keep Stepping Up to the Plate for the Environment - Winners announced of the fifth annual Recycle My Cell Student ChallengeOTTAWA, March 4, 2015 /CNW/ - The results are in and Canadian students have once again demonstrated their commitment to the responsible management of e-waste. Recycle My Cell, Canada's recycling program for mobile devices and accessories, announced today the winners of the fifth annual Recycle My Cell Student Challenge. In collaboration with the 2014 Waste Reduction Week in Canada, the Challenge saw students from kindergarten to post-secondary collecting as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries. More than 130 schools from across the country participated in the 2014 edition of the Challenge, which was held from October 20 to November 21. The schools collected more than 5,200 wireless devices along with 262 kilograms of wireless accessories and batteries. The school that collected the most wireless devices in each participating province and territory, based on student population, will receive a $500 donation to support the school's green initiatives. "Canada's young people are to be commended for their understanding that simple steps to managing e-waste will have lasting effects on our environment for generations to come," said Bernard Lord, President and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). "On behalf of the country's wireless industry, I congratulate all of the students that participated in the Challenge for once again demonstrating their environmental leadership." "There is a lot of valuein so much of what we usually toss aside and consider junk, like out-of-date or broken electronics," said Jo-Anne St. Godard, Executive Director, Recycling Council of Ontario. "Thanks to students across Canada that collected more than 5,200 devices for recycling, approximately 83 kilograms of copper and 2 kilograms of silver will be recovered." The winning schools in the 2014 Recycle My Cell Student Challenge are:
The Recycle My Cell Student Challenge is made possible by the generous support of the Recycle My Cell Partners: Bell, BlackBerry, Eastlink, GEEP Inc., Google, GREENTEC, LG Electronics Canada, Inc., Lynx Mobility, Microsoft, MTS, ProMobility, Rogers Communications, Samsung Electronics Canada Inc., SaskTel, Sony of Canada, Tbaytel, TELUS, Videotron, and Virgin Mobile Canada. Follow us on Twitter. Like us on Facebook. About Recycle My Cell About Waste Reduction Week in Canada
SOURCE Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association |