Day care parents recycling contest now on its 2nd year

Parents of children of Barangay 1 Day Care Center once again competed in a Recycling Contest to mark the Center’s 23rd Anniversary.

Left: A mother presenting a chime-like decore from rotating fan blade with empty bullet casings. Top-right: Flower from plastic drinking straw sit side by side with an origami flower from recycled paper. Bottom-right: A turtle coin bank from coconut shell.

Above: Judges going over a group entry. Below-left: Tin can robot with spoon and fork for limbs.  Below-right: plastic roses from melted plastic.

Above: Recycling contest entries on display during Barangay 1 Day Care Center 23rd Anniversary celebration. Bottom-left: Drinking straw weaved into a bag. Bottom-right: Origami decorative basket from recycled paper.

The contest is the brainchild of the Day Care Center teacher Ms. Beth Gernade and aims to promote solid waste management among the Day Care Center parents.

Just like last year, the parents were divided into groups and tasked to recycle items found in their household.

Group entries were judged according to originality (40%), craftmanship (30%), and creativity and uniqueness (30%).


“Craftmanship improved this year and the competition was stiff,” said Ms. Fe Tacogdoy, town's Tourism Officer and this year’s contest chief judge.

“We have seen new items this year. There was an electric fan rotating blade turned into a chime-like decoration using empty bullet casings and there is this robot-like decoration made from tin can,” she added.

This year’s output ranged from household decorations from paper or plastic straw, desk organizers from plastic bottles or tin caps, rags from recycled cloth, slippers and bags.