Schools reap big as Coca Cola announces winners of the Copa Coca-cola Recycling Competition

Winners of the 2019 Copa Coca Cola Recycling programme.

The Coca-cola has announced winners for the 2019 Copa Coca-cola Recycling Competition. The Campaign which was organized by Coca-Cola Central, East & West Africa Limited, Nairobi Bottlers Limited, Almasi Beverages Limited and Coastal Bottlers Limited, Kenya PET Recycling Company Limited, WPP ScanGroup and EXP Momentum (Kenya) Limited saw schools collect any beverage plastic bottle by any manufacturer and of any brand disposed of in Kenya.

The Participating Schools would then deliver the collected Beverage Plastic Bottles to the designated collection agents.

WINNERS

In Kenya, at least 92,057.50 kilogrammes were collected in the entire championship period with five schools achieving the highest numbers and winning the pitch refurbishment in their respective institutions. These are Mutuini High from Nairobi, St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School from the Coast, Mwiruti Mixed Secondary from the Rift and Mountain region, Bishop Okul Girls from the Nyanza region and finally Nyang’ori High School from the Western region.

Winners of Soccer Balls and Jerseys:

The table below shows winners of soccer balls and jerseys, per region:

School	Region	Collected Plastic weight
Maasi Boys	Eastern	710 kgs
Kivumbini Secondary	Eastern	461 Kgs
Machakos High	Eastern	306 Kgs
Ikatini Secondary	Eastern	133 Kgs
Masii Central Secondary	Eastern	98 Kgs
Muthale Girls	Eastern	62 Kgs
Makueni Girls	Eastern	58 Kgs
Boystown Secondary	North Eastern	–
Ong’icha Mixed	Nyanza	2,889 Kgs
Rapogi Boys High	Nyanza	1,135 Kgs
St. Patrick Mosocho	Nyanza	985 Kgs
Lela Mixed	Nyanza	303 Kgs
Ndiru Mixed	Nyanza	263 Kgs
Rapechi Mixed	Nyanza	218 Kgs

The goodies that the winning schools will receive from Coca Cola.

Here are links to the most important news portals:

The Campaign will ran for 12 weeks from 18thMay 2019 to 3rd August 2019.

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