Collect-a-Can starts new competition

This competition runs from February to October 2011 and pays cash prizes to the schools that collect the most cans per month, with additional prizes for the schools that collect the most cans per annum.

Further opportunities

It also runs three supplementary competitions during the year giving learners the opportunity to win additional cash or sponsored prizes for themselves or their school.

• The Artistic Expression Competition (February to May) encourages learners to interpret a theme through the creation of a drawing, painting, sculpture, poem, essay or other creative avenue. The 2011 theme is "I CAN make a difference to the future by recycling cans today." Prizes are awarded to the three most creative entries in a junior and senior category.
  
• The CAN Craze Competition (June to September) requires that school children work together to build creative structures out of 300 or more cans. First, second and third prizes are awarded to the three most creative CAN-structions.
  
• Schools that enter the National Schools Competition are automatically entered into the Guinness World Records Attempt Competition in October when Collect-a-Can strive to meet or beat the record they first set in 2007 for the most cans collected in one month. Schools that collect the most cans in October are awarded prizes.
  
• A new category for charity institutions was launched last year giving charities an opportunity to win prizes in October too.

For more information go to www.collectacan.co.za