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Can Film Festival Gets Students Recycling

Students swap empty cans for free film screenings to boost campus recycling

Students, lecturers and staff at universities across the country have been watching films for free by simply bringing along empty drinks cans to be recycled. The initiative, aptly titled the Can Film Festival, has been developed by Every Can Counts to support Go Green Week .

Now in its third successful year, the Can Film Festival aims to raise awareness of the recyclability of drinks cans and encourage more students and young people to do the right thing with their empties.  To gain free entry to film screenings, cinema-goers simply have to bring at least two cans. As every part of every can is infinitely recyclable without loss of quality, a recycled drinks can could be back on shelves as another can in just six weeks.

The Can Film Festival is open throughout the year to any university or college keen to get involved, it’s not just for Go Green Week!

Participating campuses have access to Every Can Counts recycling containers, and free posters and promotional materials to help encourage both staff and students to swap their empties for entry.

Workplaces can join in too!

In fact the Can Film Festival concept can be easily adapted for a workplace – so if you’d like to organise an event in your business just check out the resources and you can get started straight away!

Rick Hindley of Every Can Counts commented: “Of the 9.4 billion drinks cans sold in the UK every year, around half still end up in landfill sites, wasting precious resources and energy, as well as contributing to rising CO2 levels. By running a Can Film Festival universities and colleges can communicate the value of these cans and encourage people to think again when they’re choosing what to do with their empties.”

To date, there are over 4000 Every Can Counts collection points across the UK – at tourist attractions, music festivals, shopping centres and workplaces. In 2011, the programme helped recycle over 51 million drinks cans.

For more information about setting up a drinks can recycling scheme in your university or college visit: www.everycancounts.co.uk/canfilmfestival

We know that Every Can Counts can make a difference to a workplace recycling programme – it raises awareness of, and interest in, recycling facilities for all recyclables. The programme is easy to join and set up in a workplace, with orders from our webshop guaranteed to arrive within 7 working days. Our promotional materials can be ordered on line, and most are free. Poster templates are available in our downloads area for you to include company information and logos.

To see how other organisations are using Every Can Counts read our case studies.