Pupils promote the recycling message

Following success in The Highland Council’s Recycling Mural competition, pupils from two Wester Ross schools will now see their award winning designs produced as  banners which will go on display at the Recycling Centres in Ullapool and Gairloch.

The competition run by the Council’s Waste Aware Team proved to be very popular with 55 primary schools submitting a total of 119 entries, with a wide array of styles and ideas.

Chairman of the TEC Services Committee, Councillor John Laing was on the judging panel and was very impressed with the high standard of artwork produced all the pupils who took part.  He said:  “The creativity and imagination of the young people is incredible and all of the entries had come up with clever, eye-catching ways to promote the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle message.  It was obvious that a lot of hard work had thought had gone into all the designs which made my job as one of the judges very difficult.  After much deliberation the entry from Badcaul was chosen to be displayed at the Ullapool Recycling Centre and the entre from Poolewe was selected for the Gairloch Recycling Centre.

“It really is encouraging to see our young people are so aware of important recycling issues and I would like to congratulate everyone involved.”