As part
of National Schools Environment Protection Program, RWA will participate in the Clean Energy Business Council’s inter school competition
, to help reduce air pollution caused by the cars.
* The Competition - ‘Clean The Air We Breathe’
* Students from the participating schools can plant a tree or
plant anywhere, any time of day during the competition period and thus
purify the air around us we breathe.
* The teachers/parents must send individual photos to me
(Mrs. Jaya Butani or Mrs. Trayle Kulshan, latest by 11th
June 2015) showing them planting a tree/plant.
* The school with the highest percentage of submissions (1
entry=1 tree/plant planted) will be announced the winner. (based on total
number of students attending the school)
* This competition is open to students of all ages and
year groups.
* The Prize
The Winner
will be presented with a plaque and certificate
in recognition of their NOx Pollution Neutral Effect environment.
The Winning School will be offered a painted area
(free of charges), near the street and/or car park sufficiant
to offset the vehicles and busses arriving/departing in the school area, each
day for the last 100m of emissions.
The Winning School will be given the choice of rather painting their external
roof adjacent to the AC input with Airlite Paint which will help purify the
air, increase the building’s energy efficiency and clean the air going into the
Air Conditioning System.
* Time Frame
Competition
begins on 20 May 2015
Last day
for submission of entries closes on 13 June 2015
Participating
Schools must notify CEBC of their total number of trees planted by 15 June
2015
(and send a
compiled file with the pictures)
The Winning
School will be announced on 18 June 2015
The winning school:
Painting of
the school building exterior (colour in accordance with school), will take
place over the summer holiday at a convenient time agreed to by the Winning
School and Airlite Paint. The Italian company Airlite has created a special
paint that is based on the photocatalysis principle where the pollutants
in the air are decomposed and naturally transformed into inert salts and thus
neutralises the damaging effects of car emissions and helps purify the air. One
square metre of paint reduces air pollution as effectively as one mature tree. (The Paint has the added benefit
of significantly cooling a building/roof and ‘scrubbing’ input air to the AC
system which improves energy efficiency and creates a healthier environment for
our children).
Go
Green
Wow! Our Primary School Eco-monitors are a positive example of how we should all strive to be more ECO-FRIENDLY in our daily actions.
