Dear Parents/Carers,

Summer is finally here. What better time to have a wardrobe clear out and make way for your new summer wardrobe.

Did you know that at St. Albert’s Primary we collect old clothes for recycling and this brings in much needed funds for our Eco Committee to use, for carrying out a variety of environmental activities that help us to earn our prestigious green flag awards from Eco Schools Scotland?

We have a Green outdoor collection bank situated just inside the gates at the infant playground where you can drop off bags of unwanted clothes, paired shoes, handbags or belts.

These are collected when the bin is full and taken to be sorted and graded at the U.K’s largest recycling facility. Good quality clothing is taken to Africa and other countries to be reused by people who need them. Low grade textiles can be made into carpets, underlay, mattress linings and industrial wiping cloths. Nothing is wasted or sent to landfill sites, so it helps to preserve the environment.

In return for these clothing donations the Eco Committee will receive cheques for our funds. Recently we donated £40 from our Eco fund to Solar Aid. This is a charity that is helping to provide solar lights to people in developing countries who have no electricity. These replace dangerous kerosene lamps that they use to light their homes in the evenings. This is a safe, cheap way to provide lighting to poor families across the globe and is especially helpful to young people who are trying to improve their life chances with studying in the evenings.

Will you please help our Eco Committee to continue with their plans? Please donate any unwanted clothes, bags, belts or paired shoes to our clothes bank whenever you can. Thank you.

St. Albert’s Eco Committee