CHALFORD HILL PRIMARY and Puddleducks Playgroup are asking the people of Stroud to help them win the Febreze Freshness Championships and the £2,500 prize.

The contest is part of a recycling fundraising initiative called the Febreze Air and Home Care Recycling Programme, which enables any brand of air freshener, home care products and packaging to be recycled for the first time.

Many of the mixed plastics that go into the packaging of these products cost a huge amount of money to recycle and the infrastructure is simply not available across the UK.

This prompted Febreze and TerraCycle to team up and launch the Air and Home Care Recycling Programme, a free recycling fundraising scheme which enables any individual or organisation in the UK to recycle any brand of these hard to recycle air freshener and home care materials.

Chalford and Puddleducks need the people of Stroud to save as many of these products as possible from being thrown in landfill so they can recycle them directly.

Mrs Jane Lee, a member of the Parent Teacher Association at Chalford Hill Primary School who administrates the recycling efforts said: “So far we have saved 4,735 pieces of waste for recycling.

“The support of the wider Stroud and Gloucestershire community can really help boost the amount of air freshener and home care waste we save from landfill.

“We would like to thank everyone who has collected for us so far and ask them to keep going.”  

If you would like to help the school and nursery win the contest then drop your used plastic air fresheners in the collection box at the reception of Stroud Council office in Westward Road, Ebley Mill from 8:45am-5pm Monday to Friday.