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Girls from a Brighton junior school are celebrating their first seven-a-side football tournament victory wearing a brand new kit made from recycled plastic bottles
A visit from the Marine ConservationSociety’s (MCS) Cool Seas Roadshow to Patcham Junior School in February inspired the children to participate in the Bottles Champions competition where the collection of closures from bottles sent to recycling is rewarded by an offer of football kits actually made from used bottles.
The competition is the result of a partnership between the MCS and The Plastics 2020 Challenge initiative, backed by the British Plastics Federation, the Packaging and Films Association and PlasticsEurope. In the last two years, funding from Plastics 2020 has allowed the Marine Conservation Society to deliver 157 Cool Seas Roadshows briefing children on the wonders of the ocean and the irresponsibility of littering used objects such as plastics artifacts. Some 26,971 children have now been involved and 207,020 bottles been recycled.
Fifty- seven schools have now been awarded the sports kit made from recycled bottles. Peter Davis of the Plastics 2020 Challenge said “This is one of several initiatives we have taken in the UK to help prevent plastics getting into the sea. These are valuable materials and should not be irresponsibly thrown away. We want to set others an example.”
Patcham Junior schools has joined a select group of teams including Arsenal, Portugal and Brazil who all wear strips made from recycled plastic bottles. Following their success in winning the Brighton and Hove Girls seven-a-side tournament , the Patcham team will now represent Brighton and Hove Schools in the Sussex finals next March at Lancing College.
Ten-year old Hannah Bassett who played in the winning team said: “It was really cool wearing a shirt that had been made from bottles that we may have collected.”
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