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Green school picks up award

7:30am Monday 29th September 2008 in St Michael's

Ideas on recycling led to pupils picking up a £500 cheque. Ideas on recycling led to pupils picking up a £500 cheque.

A Garston secondary school is again revelling in the title of the district’s greenest school.

Pupils at St Michael's Catholic High School were awarded £500 by paper recycling company Aylsford Newsprint for winning the competition, backed by the Hertfordshire Waste Partnership and Three Rivers District Council.

The competition asked pupils to come up with ideas to help spread the reduce, re-use and recycle message to their peers and families.

St Michael’s winning idea was to environmentally revamp their school canteen by eliminating non-reusable plastic and polystyrene cups, plates and utensils, to reduce the amount of waste generated by the school.

The school also boasts an active Environment Committee, made up of young people, to work towards reducing the school's carbon footprint.

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