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The 2010 Fantastic Plastics Competition winners are:

Category		Place		Winner		School
1		1		Lindokuhle Martin Dlamini; and Jenisha Lutchmipersadh		Gr 9, Vryheid Comprehensive Gr5, Parkvale Primary
		2		Grades 6 & 7 classes; and Rapeleng Sethlapelo & RememberMathebula		Nobuntu Snr Primary School Gr 11, Gumede Section, Mjakeneng
		3		Thakgatso Mokgabudi		Rammupuku Primary
2
		1		Keabetswe Kgomotso Mogatusi		Gr 7, Bodubelo Primary
		2		Mmamatsepe Oprah Ramatse		Gr 7, Onimus Mogafe Primary
		3		Grades 3 - 7 classes		St Conrad's College
3
		1		Emma Pons		Gr 12, St Mary's DSG
		2		Abigail Davies		Gr 12, St Mary's DSG
		3		Dudzile Zulu		Gr 12, Prestige College
4
		1		Mpho Mothoa		Gr 12, Prestige College
		2		Michelle Huang, Wade Lee & Jack Yang		Gr 11, Newcastle High

 

Prizes include cash prizes for the school and the learners! First prize winners are also whisked away on a Fun weekend to Knysna where they will participate in a World Cleanup Event!

Details of our weekend away will be added to this page at the end of September 2010.

 

FANTASTIC PLASTICS COMPETITION 2009

The winners of the 2009 Fantastic Plastics Competition were: Category Place Winner School 1 1 Johane Matthee Vredenburg High School 2 Tiega Alberts Parktown Girls High School 3 Michael Haung Newcastle High School 2 1 Crysty Frick Vredenburg High School 2 Homayra Fakir Kismet Secondary School 3 Sarah Blunden Diocesan School for Girls 3 1 Mpho Mothoa & Nomfundo Mhlongo Prestige College Jill Haung Newcastle High School 3 Mbale Zwane Chipa Tabane Secondary Lehlohonolo Tatsi Kgolagano Secondary School 3 (Primary School) 1 Mmagokgope Themane Photohlogoana Primary School 2 Gwen Bosch Ixopo Primary School 3 Gillian Reid Roedean Junior School

Every year for the past three years the PFSA has received bags of competition entry forms from grade 10 to 12 learners , and 2008 was no different!

The rules of the competition and competition details were promoted at the countrywide SABC Education Faires, CET24 Magazine and on SABC Education Television programmes, ensuring that all learners were targeted.

“Plastic is fantastic!” is our motto here at the Enviromark and with the support of Buyisa-e-bag, PETCO, PSPC, Pick n Pay, Ocean Conservancy, the ITA, eWasa, Axiz, Global e-Waste Solutions and SABC Education, this year’s competition was set for success from the start!

The quality of entries received this year is a good indication of the positive impact of environmental education both in the formal school curriculum and through the efforts of NGO’s and other environmental initiatives. The competition consisted of 4 categories (plastics in the automotive industry, the recycling of plastic waste at my school and community, a litter clean-up campaign and the use of plastics in electronics). An independent judging panel consisting of Catherine Constantinides (Director Miss Earth SA), Lene Ecgroignard (GM: eWasa), Belinda Booker (PETCO) and Tekani Mashele (SABC Education) had the difficult task of identifying our four category winners that were announced at the International Coastal Clean-up event at the False Bay Yacht Club on 20 September 2008. Category winners were also treated to a fun-filled weekend with the Enviromark Team in Cape Town and the programme included:

• A visit to the Two Oceans Aquarium
• A boat trip in the Waterfront
• A visit to the Cape Point Nature Reserve
• A truly Capetonian fish and chips supper at the popular Kalkies Restaurant
• A wine tour and breakfast at the Great Constantia Wine Estate

National Winner of the South African Youth Water Prize 2008 – first place, Raksha Gosai – She also represented South Africa at the International Junior Water Prize in Stockholm, Sweden.

The winners of the 2008 Fantastic Plastics Competition were:

As an added bonus Miss Earth South Africa (Matapa Maila), the Director of Miss Earth SA (Catherine Constantinides), Stacy Koma (Presenter on 50/50), Stenette Groskopf (Producer 50/50) and Piet Snyman (Camera man 50/50) joined this lively team of learners for the weekend programme.

We are already looking forward to next year’s competition and have some exciting changes up our “Plastic Sleeves” so watch this space!!

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS !

• PFSA
• Enviromark
• eWasa
• ITA
• PSPC
• PETCO
• Buyisa-e-Bag
• Pick n Pay
• SABC Education
• 50/50
• Miss Earth
• Ocean Conservancy

National Competition for Grade 10, 11 and 12 Learners

"Plastic is Fantastic!" So says The Enviromark – the plastic industry's environmental initiative, the Plastics Federation of South Africa, Buyisa-e-Bag, PETCO, Toyota, Pick n Pay Hypermarket Moffet Branch, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and SABC Education. This year's competition focused on two Learning areas:

Our winners on the beach, and whalewatching in Nelson Mandela Bay

It was very appropriate that this year's winners were treated to a fun-filled weekend in the friendly City of Port Elizabeth. Did you know that Port Elizabeth is also a winner? The City of Port Elizabeth is the proud winner of "The Cleanest City in South Africa" title.On Friday, 14th September, our Prizewinners were flown in from far and wide, and Pick 'n Pay were at the Port Elizabeth airport to welcome them with sports bags filled with real treats, as well as pocket money for the weekend! Toyota very kindly provided us with a Quantum bus and Prius to transport our winners around town in style and comfort. After visiting the aquarium, and enjoying the antics of the father and son team of dolphins, our valued sponsors, and VIP winners and their teachers, got together for dinner at a restaurant overlooking Algoa Bay. Saturday, the official International Coastal Clean up Day, was a bustle of activity as busloads of children arrived at Pine Lodge to participate in the beach clean-up. Brightly clothed groups scuttled up and down the beach, collecting everything from discarded toothbrushes and takkies, to fishing line and bottles.Yellow bags quickly filled up, and dotted the beach - evidence of lots of activity and lots more litter! These bags were later collected and removed by Enviroserve, a regional waste collection company.

The prizegiving took place at Pine Lodge, where each winner received their prize money of R5000, together with gifts from The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, SAPPI and Pick n Pay. The winning schools also received R5000 each, to spend on Fantastic Plastics products, as they pleased.

Our prizewinners had an experience of a lifetime on Sunday morning, when they were taken on a boat ride to track the whales down. Not only were we lucky enough to pass schools of dolphins and a rather rotund seal! We spent two hours at sea, following the 7 whales (6 humpback, and 1 Southern Right), who dutifully performed every possible trick for the group. What a spectacular end to a perfect weekend!

This clean up campaign formed part of the Plastics Federation of SA's contribution to International Coastal Clean Up Day on 15 September 2007 and National Cleanup Week from 10-15 September 2007.

The national prize winners are:

LEARNING AREA: LANGUAGE
Students were asked to design a booklet on the application of Plastics in the automotive industry.

• Timmy Joji - Kismet Combined School, Vryburg
• Luke Jenkins – Weston Agricultural College, Mooiriver

LEARNING AREA: PHYSICAL SCIENCE/APPLIED SCIENCE
This was a Group entry, required to produce a report on the feasibility of a plastic waste collection system for plastics recycling at their school. The winners were from Vredenburg High School, Vredenburg:

• Johan du Toit
• Anthony Harvett
• Derik Basson