Laxdale Primary School has been crowned Highlands and Islands champion in a litter picking competition for young people across Scotland.
Environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful’s Litter League, now in its second year, is an initiative aimed at getting children and young people more involved in the litter issue across the country.
The competition formed part of the charity’s annual #SpringCleanScotland challenge and 5,864 young people, supported by more than 1,000 adults, across primary and secondary schools, affiliated and unaffiliated youth groups, families and colleges took part.
In total those young people completed 185 clean ups across 30 local authority areas.
Laxdale Primary School scooped the prize after collecting 29 bags of litter during three litter picks.
All category winners received a SpringCleanScotland trophy to keep for one year as part of our commitment to sustainability. All participants received a Litter League certificate to acknowledge and thank them for all their efforts.
Barry Fisher, Chief Executive at Keep Scotland Beautiful, said: “After such an amazing first year of our Litter League competition, I’m thrilled to see even more young people across Scotland getting involved this time around.
“We’re still finalising our total number for this year’s #SpringCleanScotland but we’ve comfortably surpassed 40,000, beating last year’s total of dedicated litter picking volunteers by more than 10,000, and the Litter League has proven once again that people of all ages are passionate about tackling Scotland’s litter emergency.
“Thanks to all the teachers and young people who got involved and made an effort and a huge congratulations to all our winners.”
Mischa, P5 pupil at Laxdale Primary School, said: “We really enjoyed taking part in a litter pick during Earth Day! We worked in pairs; one would be holding the bag and the other would pick up litter and then we would swap.
“It was terrible that there was that much litter to pick up, but it was great to see the difference from before and after we did the litter pick."
Laxdale School crowned regional champion in Keep Scotland Beautiful Litter League competition
8 May 2024