Cactus is supporting an environmental project at a local school, Springfield First School in Worthing, West Sussex this summer.

The school has been working hard to attain the various levels of the Eco-Schools Scheme, whereby children at the school (aged 4-8) work on projects to help the school be more environmentally active. This year, the children are working on a project called “What a load of Rubbish” which started with an audit of the schools bins and which will culminate in a week of activities centering around waste reduction, under the 3Rs of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The school plans to send ZERO waste to landfill within the next 6 months, which, it is understood, has never been done before by any school in the country.

Cactus’ donation will hopefully allow leading Norwegian artist Tone Holmen to visit the school, and run a workshop with the children with a strong environmental theme - to make a polar bear sculpture from old plastic supermarket bags! Tone is a painter of abstract forms based on global warming, geography and travel routes through landscapes, and you can see more of her work here: Tone’s portfolio.

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