Composite Prime has launched a nationwide recycling programme to encourage children aged 5 to 11 years to recycle plastic waste.
Working alongside We are Futures, who run The National Schools Partnership (NSP), Composite Prime’s Message in a Bottle Top campaign inspires key stage one and two pupils, from participating schools, to collect and repurpose their own bottle tops into thought-provoking art murals and sculptures; showcasing the creatures they’d love to protect from plastic pollution.
Composite Prime Director, Charles Taylor commented: “With around eight million tons of plastic polluting the earth’s oceans every year, the race to protect marine life is growing more urgent every day. Playing our part in tackling this challenge is one of the key priorities for Composite Prime.
“Our Message in a Bottle Top campaign has been created specifically to target younger generations to ensure Composite Prime is doing its part in educating children to recycle. This is absolutely essential for us to continue diverting thousands of tons of discarded plastic from oceans and landfills every year.”
All competition entries submitted by schools, ahead of the deadline on 5 July 2021, will be independently judged by Composite Prime. The top ten schools will have the opportunity to showcase their artwork in an online exhibition and the winning school will receive a playground makeover worth £5,000.
Charles Taylor continued: “Similarly to how Composite Prime turns waste products into beautiful decking products, the Message in a Bottle Top campaign teaches children the creative ways in which we can use trash and turn it into treasure; reducing the amount of plastic entering natural ecosystems along the way. We hope that schools across the country feel that the programme shares a very important environmental message with young people about wildlife and the effects plastic waste has on it.”
