Open to individual students and all schools located in Uganda. The competition is organized with the aim of promoting recycling amongst students.
About Inter-school Recycling Competitions
It is an Inter-school recycling competition program organized to foster climate innovation among young people and to develop adaptable, replicable and sustainable plastic pollution solutions among them. This is the first-ever recycling program to engage students across Uganda.
Engaging young people in recycling programs will provide the country with a path to a greener future. As they learn about recycling, they will be more likely to carry these habits into their adult years. Through this competition program, we are going to keep engaging students in fun, healthy and interactive recycling activities that create and nurture environmental awareness, responsibility and advocacy. We aim at challenging and encouraging students to find creative and innovative solutions to the environmental challenges of today.
Our Aim
These competitions are aimed to increase environmental awareness, foster climate innovation among young people, develop adaptable and sustainable plastic pollution solutions among them.
Our Objectives
- To promote environmental education among students and instil values, knowledge and skills needed in combating plastic pollution and fostering climate innovations.
- To provide an effective voice and focal point for community recycling in Uganda.
- To raise personal and public awareness of environmental issues, including the benefit of reducing, reusing and recycling of materials that would otherwise be sent to landfill sites.
- To work towards a shared zero-waste future.
- To increase the number of young people involved in recycling programs.
- To boost recycling activities in both rural and urban communities of Uganda.
- To increase environmental education on REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE among young people.
- To increase community awareness about the effects of climate to their daily lives.
- To reduce climate change impact.
- To engage young people in collectively and actively working towards achieving the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
About the judging committee
The judging committee comprises of environmental experts across the country, sponsor and Green Loop representatives.
Eligibility
- Only Ugandan schools under the Ministry of Education and Sports are allowed to participate in the competitions.
- Individual students and groups can also represent their schools in these competitions
- Schools which won the competitions previously may apply for nomination again the next year.
- Only active students from 15 years to 20 are allowed to participate
- The project must comply with the set criteria, and non-compliant projects shall be excluded. We also reserve the right to remove an entire category from the competition if we believe that none of the projects submitted meet the criteria.
- The project must be related to recycling and the Future of Uganda`s environmental sustainability
- All documents and attachments must be submitted online.
This Years Theme
“Sustainable Environment” The competitions are aiming to create awareness of sustainable development that preserves the environment, Improves the quality of the air, preserves water resources, increases the contribution of clean energy, and implements green growth plans, which are considered the ultimate achievements by Green Loop.
Criteria
The 2021 competitions will open up with Regional recycling competitions where students will be engaged in presenting their recycled projects on behalf of their schools and communities, regional competitions will be open to both students actively in schools and those still at home due to covid 19 pandemic government guidelines.
Due to COVID 19 Pandemic, interested schools and students are required to send in their recycling project proposals first through our website and social media platforms then a team of judges will go through each and every proposal to shortlist the most practical projects. Only project models from plastic and paper waste will be considered.
The shortlisted competitors will be contacted and visited by a special team for inspection, then they will be invited to a venue agreed upon by the organizing committee to present their project models.
The best three competitors from each region will team up to either redevelop one of their recycled project models or create new recycled models, which they will present at the national recycling competitions. At national level competitions, competitors will present their models and also get a chance to talk about them and their plastic
pollution solutions in front of different guests, dignitaries and guests of honor.
The winners will be announced and awarded after a critical examination by a team of judges on how adaptable, replicable and sustainable their recycled models are. All these events will covered by both the local and international media to create an inspiration to more young people across the world.