The European Recycling Platform, Ireland's only pan-European compliance scheme for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Waste Batteries is today asking schools to register and participate in the Batteries for Barretstown Schools Challenge.
You can register and get more details here!
Since Batteries for Barretstown was launched in 2017, the equivalent of over 136 million AA batteries have been recycled - that’s enough batteries to cover the distance from the Earth to the Moon and back five times!!
The Batteries for Barretstown Schools Challenge will be Powering Positivity in the following counties - Clare, Cavan, Kerry, Limerick, Louth, Meath, Monaghan and Dublin Fingal. Once schools have registered, they will receive a battery recycling kit which contains: Battery tubes, posters, biodegradable battery recycling bags for students to collect their batteries and stickers for those battery recycling champions.
Did you know that a battery won't decompose for 100 years? And, that you should never throw them in the normal bin. Teachers can download lots of great classroom resources on the official site.
And you can download more resources here too:
