Media Release: June 5,
2008
NIPISSING
ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH &
LAKE NIPISSING STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL
10,728 Pounds of Dead Batteries Collected!
Congratulations
are extended to Nbisiing Secondary School of North Bay for once again winning our annual Used
Household Battery Collection Competition.
The 88 students who attend Nbisiing collected 1,355 pounds (615
kilograms) of batteries. That
is an awesome 15.4 pounds (7 kilograms) of batteries per student.
Second place
went to F. J.
McElligott Secondary School of Mattawa for
collecting 885 pounds (401 kilograms) of used batteries.
That works out to 8.4 pounds (3.8 kilograms) of batteries per
student.
Over six thousand students from ten high
schools across Nipissing District collected 10,728 pounds (4,866 kilograms) of batteries.
This represents a 19% increase over last year. It
is more than five tons of
batteries and is the equivalent of over 250,000
AA size batteries.
Special mention must go to the students of Pinewood
Public School of North Bay who organized their own separate used
battery collection competition. Students
at Pinewood collected 867 pounds (393 kilograms) of batteries.
That works out to 3.9 pounds (1.8 kilograms) of batteries per
student which would have put them in third place in the high school
competition. Good work
Pinewood!
While
the battery collection competition diverts thousands of batteries from the
landfill sites, the primary purpose of the competition is to raise the
awareness 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.
Over the
past seven years, Nipissing District high school students have collected
over 46,365
pounds (21,466 kilograms) of
used household batteries.
Nipissing
Environmental Watch and the Lake Nipissing Stewardship Council would like
to thank the TD Friends of the
Environment Foundation for generously funding this competition.
For further
information, please contact Trevor Schindeler at 474-7600 ext. 5407.
