Harborough

2 February 2010Schools get creative to cut 'egg-cessive' waste

Youngsters across Leicestershire are urged to put pen to paper and design a poster for a 'cracking' Easter campaign.

Leicestershire Waste Partnership will use the picture to front a drive encouraging residents to cut packaging over Easter - this could involve choosing eggs with less wrapping or making gifts at home.

With Christmas only just over, it may seem early to be thinking about Easter but while chocolate eggs are fun and tasty, they also have a lot of packaging and generate an extra 3,000 tonnes of waste in the UK every year.

The competition is split into two age groups - four to seven years and eight to eleven years. A prize of a 100 ESPO voucher will be awarded to the school that has the pupil with the overall winning design.