PUPILS at a primary school in Thornbury have won hundreds of pounds for the school after winning a recycling competition.

Manorbrook Primary School was top of the pile in the competition run by South Gloucestershire Council – beating more than 20 other schools which took part.

The competition was designed to encourage pupils to recycle waste electrical and electronic equipment, with prizes awarded to schools that collected the largest amount of waste per pupil.

The school was awarded first place after pupils collected an impressive 1,261kg of waste electrical equipment in total, which equates to 6.8kg for every pupil. The school will receive vouchers worth £300 as a prize.

Second place was awarded to Tortworth Primary School, which received £200 for collecting 176 kg of waste electrical and electronic items. Whilst Old Sodbury CofE Primary School came third, with a total of 141 kg of waste collected.

Communities Committee chairman Cllr Heather Goddard said: “Congratulations to everyone at all of our primary schools for their impressive efforts to collect as many unwanted waste items as they could. It was great to see pupils so enthusiastic about the competition and I hope it has inspired them to be keen recyclers as they grow older.”

The total amount of waste electrical and electronic items collected from all participating schools in South Gloucestershire was 3604kg (3.6 tonnes).

For the competition pupils had to collect as many unwanted and broken small electrical items as they could for recycling. They were able to submit any electrical item up to the size of a flat screen television (excluding fridges, freezers and the old style CRT televisions, which have to be recycled separately to other electrical items). Each school was given two plastic crates to collect their items and additional crates were delivered as and when needed.