Muskoka Christian School is collecting batteries for a good cause. The school took part in this year’s Ontario Schools Battery Recycling Challenge, which tasks kids to collect the most batteries of any other school in the province. Over $15,000 was in the prize pool for this school year, and around $1,500 of that will go the Sick Kids Hospital Foundation.
Muskoka Christian School came third in the challenge, collecting almost 2000 batteries and winning just over $2,300 for the school.
Representative for Raw Materials Company, which hosts the challenge, Sarah Lacharity says the goal is to keep batteries out of landfills, and to teach kids about the importance of recycling.
She says they collect the batteries from the school, and recycle them at their plant in Port Colborne.
Parent volunteer Andrea Clarke says the school got involved when only one student in the grade five/six class knew that their family was recycling batteries. She says the original plan was to hold the challenge within the school.
Lacharity says 125 schools took part in the challenge this year, and 1.2 million batteries were collected.
