10 budding young artists have won the chance to see their artwork promoting the importance of recycling out on the roads of Kent and Medway thanks to a drawing competition organised by local business Countrystyle Recycling.
The competition aims to inspire young children across Kent, highlighting the need to recycle more. The winning pieces of artwork were enlarged, printed and fixed to one of the company’s lorries that will be in use for the next 12 months.
The winning Year 3 and 4 pupils were from Boughton Under Blean and Dunkirk School, near Canterbury; East Farleigh Primary, near Maidstone; Seabrook CoE Primary in Hythe; and Swingate Primary in Chatham.
Part of the family-owned Kent-based Heathcote Holdings, Countrystyle Recycling is a commercial waste management and recycling services company.
Martin Heathcote, chief executive of Countrystyle Recycling, said: “As a farming family with years of experience in waste management, we know that it is important to teach children about where their food comes from, what happens to the waste we produce and what we can do to reuse and recycle more.
“The Living Land event was a fantastic opportunity to have that conversation which has led to us turning one of our trucks into a mobile art gallery and spreading the message about recycling across the communities we serve.”
The competition was launched at last year’s Living Land event, which welcomed more than 2,000 children from across the county and was hosted by Kent County Agricultural Society.
