2,215.3 kilograms of used batteries have been exactly the kilos collected from December to May by the fifty educational centers of infant, primary and secondary that have participated this year in the school contest 'Ponte las Pilas', organized by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, through Lanzarote Recicla of the Waste Area directed by Echedey Eugenio, and Ecopilas. Each kilogram contains an average of 40 batteries collected, according to Ecopilas, which means that thanks to this school contest about 89,000 disused batteries will be recycled.
The Councilor for Waste, Echedey Eugenio, the Councilor for Youth and Sports of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Patricia Pérez, and the Director of Communication of Ecopilas, Julio Lema, were in charge this morning of congratulating all the participating centers for the effort made and rewarding the two winning centers.
During the awards ceremony, they reported that "all these batteries will enter a recycling system coordinated by Ecopils, which allows us to conserve our natural environment and recycle more than 75% of the components of used batteries".
Winners V edition of the contest
The CEIP Capellanía del Yágabo is once again awarded the first prize, with 556 kilograms of disused batteries delivered for recycling and correct treatment; as well as the CEIP Muñique that with only 10 students, have collected 139 kilograms, reaching the other first prize in the category of 'highest proportion of batteries collected per student'. Specifically, this last unitary center collected 13.9 kilograms per participating student.
The two winning centers received an award consisting of a batch of didactic recycling material valued at 600 euros.
Followed by these two winning centers in their respective modalities, the second place was for the CEIP Ajei (148 Kg) and the third place for the CEIP Muñique (139 Kg) in the modality of the highest number of kilograms of batteries collected. In fourth place was the CEIP Virgen de los Volcanes de Tinajo (96Kg) and in fifth place CEIP El Quintero (88 Kg).
In the category of 'highest proportion of batteries collected per student', the CEIP de Muñique is followed by the CEIP El Cuchillo (2 Kg per student), in third place the CEIP La Vegueta (1.25 kg per student), in fourth place the CEIP Capellanía del Yágabo (0.83 Kg per student) and in fifth place the CEO Ignacio Aldecoa (0.69 Kg per student).
"During the development of the school year, Ecopilas has been responsible for removing the 'collectors' in each participating educational center, a cardboard box provided during the campaign that has allowed the educational community, students, parents, tutors and teaching staff, among others, to deposit used batteries, for their subsequent treatment and management of this waste highly harmful to the environment if not managed properly", explained the counselor and detailed that as a novelty this year, different didactic, informative and educational material and 17,000 minirecopiladores of Ecopilas have been delivered where the students of the 50 participating centers have been able to separate the used batteries in their homes to take them later to the educational centers.
This contest is framed as one more of the dynamization activities of the Recycling Project in Educational Centers 'Play Clean with your school', developed by the Waste Area of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, through which more than 25,000 students daily separate the waste generated in the 70 schools on the island.
