2007 Winners

Extraordinary Creativity within demanding Criteria Sees Mundingburra State School win for the 2nd time …….. making a real difference for recycling and the environment

For the first time since it commenced in 1995, the National Recycling Week (12 -18 November) $10,000 National Schools Competition has been won, for the second time, by Mundingburra State School.

Phil Enright, National Coordinator of the Australian Recycled Cartonboard National Schools Competition said, “The achievement of these Year 7 primary school students is extraordinary. The creativity and scale of their entry to effectively communicate the key messages was beyond that of many professionals. The commitment of schools like Mundingburra and their dedicated teachers like Erick Blechen, is essential to sustain community pressure to keep industry expanding its use of recycled waste in the packaging they use.

In making the announcement, Enright went on to say, “Again it shows any school can win, and regional primary schools and their communities usually produce the most outstanding outcomes.

The Competition was judged on essentially 3 criteria;

Communicating the message that ‘Recycling only works, if you buy recycled too!’
The creativity achieved in communicating the message and,
The extent to which the students engage their community to communicate the message

The ‘team’ of students who produced the winning entry are:

Rhiannon Cotter	Courtney Rushforth	Mikaela Pearson
Tyra Seres	Katrina Land	Mathew Moyle
Henry Martin	Jarrod Bevan	Ezarco Pinto Pereira
Erin Glew	Natalyn Richards	Alise Greenup-Crompton
Malachi Connor	Stephen Dover	Dylan Davies
Ryan Bennett	James Perez	Anthony Gray
Jeremiah Liew	Larrisa Jenkins-Sherrington

The judges also highly commended the efforts of Southport State School and Kempsey West Public School.