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Circol ELT Schools Competition 2024

Win A Playground Upgrade Worth €20,000 for Your School. Circol ELT, Irelands Tyre Compliance scheme is offering your school the chance to win recycled rubber matting for your schoolyard to the value of €20,000. We want to celebrate the use of waste tyres in innovative products like playground matting and their positive environmental impact,

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How to enter

We have developed some great teaching resources explaining the many innovative uses for materials made from waste tyres which illustrate how they can be incorporated in everyday life in your school and community. To enter your school in this great competition, use your creativity to tell us in a story, poem, video, rhyme or picture how rubber matting made from recycled tyres will benefit your pupils and the environment and why your school should be the winner oft his fantastic prize.

Last year St. Conaires N. S. in Ennis Co. Clare, were the lucky winner - it could be your school this year!

  • There is one prize of Rubber Matting worth €20,000 to upgrade the schoolyard of one lucky school, plus 4 runner- up prizes of €1,000, one tor each of the provinces of Ireland.
  • This is a fantastic prize that's not only good  school but also good for the environment. To enter, simply complete the official entry form below.
  • Then use your creativity to tell us in a story, poem, video, rhyme or picture how rubber matting made from recycled tyres will benefit your pupils and the environment and why your school should be the winner of this fantastic prize.
  • Written entries must be no more than 300 words. Visual entries or recordings should be no more than 10MB.

Learn about the uses of Used Tyres in Recycling

Used Tyres become a useful resource for the circular economy and there are many uses for end of life tyres when they are recycled and recovered. In Ireland, over 4 million waste tyres every year are recycled or recovered and managed in an environmentally sound manner on behalf of Circol ELT Members.

Click on the links to our sustainability themed class room activity sheets on the left. 

Watch the video below with your class and see what happens to tyres when they reach their end of life. Then use the resources below in your class to explain the recycling process for End of Life Tyres.

 

The Story of Tyres

Do you know what happens your waste tyre? Click on play to see how Circol ELT along with our Members and Authorised Collectors make sure your old tyres are environmentally managed.

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Full Terms and Conditions

1. The Promoter is Circol ELT, The Link Business Centre, Unit 3G, Block G, Calmount Park, Dublin D12Y050

2. The Competition runs from September 1st – October 31st 2023.

Judging will take place during November with winners announced by November 30th.

3.  The prize consists of a €20,000 to install or upgrade a play area for your school with rubber matting made from End of Life tyres. The prize value of €20,000 must cover all costs in relation to the installation or upgrade of your existing playground with rubber matting, including site survey, groundwork, levelling, and installation of rubber matting. The size of the area to be upgraded or installed will depend on the condition of the current playground and the preparatory work that needs to be undertaken as determined by our contractor.

There are also 4 runner up prizes of a €1,000 for a school in each Irish province.

4.  To enter, your school must complete the official entry form on the Circol ELT website and tell us why your school should win.

5.  Promotional copy forms part of these rules. 

6.  By entering this competition, entrants agree to be bound by the rules. 

7. Prizes offered as stated, no alternative cash or otherwise will be offered and no correspondence will be entered into. 

8.  Winners will be selected on the creativity and appropriateness of their entry in the estimation of the judges. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 

9.  You can enter this Promotion if you are a Republic of Ireland Primary School. Entry is not open to: (i) our employees or their immediate families; or (ii) anyone else professionally connected with this Promotion. Canvasing will disqualify. We may require any information that we consider reasonably necessary in order to verify your eligibility.

10.  The promoter reserves the right to validate and verify winning entries 

11.  To redeem your prize, you will be required to provide detailed information and a full site visit and survey will be required by our contractor to assess the area which we can apply the recycled rubber matting, based on the existing infrastructure and playground condition.

12.  The promoter cannot be held responsible for delays in delivery of prizes due to availability issues, weather, contractor availability or other issues beyond our control.

13.  We may, at our sole discretion, opt to re-award your prize to a reserve winner selected on the same basis as you in any of the following circumstances: (i) if you win a prize and you do not claim it by sending your contact details via text or email; (ii) if you win a prize and fail our verification or eligibility check; (iii) if you win a prize and are disqualified for any reason; or (iv) if you win a prize and you are unable to accept it for any reason. 

14.  We reserve the right to verify all entries including but not limited to verifying address and identity details for the school and may refuse to award a prize or withdraw a prize entitlement and/or refuse to award a prize where there are reasonable grounds to believe there has been a breach of these terms and conditions or any instructions forming part of this Promotion’s entry requirements or otherwise where a participant has gained unfair advantage in participating in the promotion or won using fraudulent means. The Promoter will be the final arbiter in any decisions and these will be binding and no correspondence will be entered into in relation to this clause. 

15. We reserve the right to cancel or amend the Promotion and/or vary these conditions in the event of circumstances outside our reasonable control, or otherwise where fraud, abuse, and/or an error (human or computer) affects or could affect the proper operation of this Promotion or the awarding of prizes, and only where circumstances make this unavoidable. In these circumstances, we would always endeavour to minimise the effect to participants in order to avoid undue disappointment. 

16. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we will not be liable to you in respect of your inability to enter due to online, internet or website issues 

17. We will use the personal information we collect from you in order to administer this Promotion.

18.  If you win, you and your school may be required to take part in unpaid publicity in connection with this Promotion. 

19. For the details of the winners’ full name and county of each Prize, visit circolelt.ie/schoolscompetition. These will be posted once winners are confirmed.

20.  To the fullest extent permitted by law and excluding death or permanent injury caused as a result of the Promoter’s negligence, the Promoter accepts no liability for loss or injury as a result of the Promotion or receipt or misuse of any prize. 

21. The promoter cannot be held responsible for any defect or fault which may arise with the prize. These will be covered by the manufacturers/instalation guarantee.

22.  These terms and conditions will be interpreted and applied on the basis of Irish law and the courts of Ireland will have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute. 

23.  No purchase necessary

 

 

 

 

Schools Competition Entry Form

Complete this Entry Form in full

(Check out the Member list on our website)
You can tell us in story, song, poem, rhyme, video or picture why your school should be the winner. Written entries must be no more than 300 words. Visual entries should be no more than 10MB.
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