Another year of camping trips at View Royal elementary will be funded through bottle returns B次元官网网址� a fundraising trend spreading across Greater Victoria thanks to a recycling stewardship program.
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Encorp PacificB次元官网网址檚 B.C. Recycling Program allows schools to keep 100 per cent of the bottle deposits, in addition to awarding cash prizes for the schools that returned the most bottles based on their size.
With 100,103 containers returned and $7,112 in deposit refunds, View Royal beat out all other B.C. elementary schools with between 151 and 300 students. The award came with $750 in prize money from Encorp.
View Royal has historically used earnings from bottle drives to fund Grade 5 camping trips as well as any resources needed by its parent advisory council.
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Glanford middle school collected 78,850 containers worth $6,051.05 in deposits, landing them a third place prize of $250 for a secondary school with 200 to 500 students.
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Honourable mentions went to Cedar Hill, Dunsmuir, Spencer and Colquitz middle schools, as well as Colwood, Craigflower, Happy Valley, Ruth King and Strawberry Vale elementary schools. Spectrum community school also earned an honourable mention, as did Lakeview Christian and St. MargaretB次元官网网址檚 schools.
Collectively, those schools returned 244,133 beverage containers.
Since the federally-funded program began in 2000, 37 million containers have been refunded for more than $2.2 million.
This year, prizes have increased to $1,000, $750 and $500.
