Nipissing Environmental Watch

Media Release - June 15, 2006 - For Immediate Release

Winners of the 2006
Used Household Battery
 Collection Competition

128,723 Batteries Diverted From Landfill Site

 
We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2006 Used Household Battery Collection Competition.

The first place winner once again is Nbisiing Secondary School of North Bay. The students at Nbisiing collected 4.77 pounds (2.154 kilograms) of batteries per student! The sixty-one students at Nbisiing collected a total of 291 pounds (132 kilograms) of batteries.

St. Joseph - Scollard Hall, also of North Bay, came in second place by collecting an impressive 2.11 pounds (0.958 kilograms) of batteries per student. Altogether, the students of St. Joseph - Scollard Hall collected 2,270 pounds (1,029.67 kilograms) of batteries.

High school students in North Bay and area diverted a total of 5,501 pounds (2,495.25 kilograms) of batteries from the local landfill site. That is equivalent to approximately 128,723 AA size batteries!

The weigh-in results were as follows:

 

SCHOOL

LB

KG

# OF STUDENTS

LB PER
STUDENT

KG PER STUDENT

Algonguin École Secondaire

400

181.44

600

0.666

0.302

Almaguin Highland Secondary

420

190.51

770

.545

0.247

Chippewa Secondary School

1,756

796.52

930

1.888

0.856

Nibisiing Secondary School

291

132.00

61

4.771

2.154

St. Joseph-Scollard Hall

2,270

1,029.67

1,075

2.112

0.958

West Ferris Secondary

134

60.78

950

0.141

0.093

Widdifield Secondary

230

104.33

950

0.242

0.110

TOTALS

5,501

2,495.25

 

While the battery collection competition diverts tons of batteries from the local landfill, it also helps to raise awareness among students and their friends and families about environmental issues and, in particular, about the proper disposal of hazardous waste. In North Bay, batteries and other hazardous waste should be taken to the Household Hazardous Waste Depot at 112 Patton Street.

For further information, please contact Trevor Schindeler at 495-0925 (home) or 474-7601 extension #5407 (office).