Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority

♻️ Green Champions on the Move – Four Days to Go! ♻️

Every item dropped off at one of our Green Champions Schools is making its way to responsible recycling!

From phones and chargers to batteries and aluminium cans, your contributions are being gathered, sorted, and prepared for a cleaner, greener Saint Lucia. 🌿

This is what teamwork looks like - schools, communities, and partners coming together for our island’s future. 💚

📍 Keep those drop‑offs coming to:
🏫 Carmen Renee Memorial

🏫 Gordon & Walcott Methodist Memorial School

🏫 Roman Catholic Boys School

🏫 Canon Laurie Anglican School

🏫 Ave Maria Girls School

Every piece of e‑waste collected is one less item in the landfill - and one more step toward sustainability. 🌎✨

The Green Champions Challenge is organised by Greening the Caribbean Inc in partnership with the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority.

Sponsors:
🔹 Massy Stores SLU
🔹 St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited
🔹 Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority - Slaspa

The Countdown Is On! ⏰💥

Five days. Five schools. One mission.
The race to crown our Green Champions is heating up! 🔥 This week, we’re calling every student, parent, neighbor, and alum to rally behind your school.

If you’ve got it, please drop it! 👇

What to bring:
📱 Old phones
🔌 Tangled chargers
🎮 Broken controllers
🥤 Rinsed aluminum cans

Where to drop it off:
Bring your e‑waste and aluminum cans to any of our five participating schools:
🏫 Carmen Renee Memorial
🏫 Gordon & Walcott Methodist Memorial School
🏫 Roman Catholic Boys School
🏫 Canon Laurie Anglican School
🏫 Ave Maria Girls School

Let’s show Saint Lucia what real champions look like! 🌎💚

⚠️ Competition closes Friday, June 19th.
Every item counts, every action matters.

🌿 The Green Champions Challenge is organized by Greening the Caribbean Inc & the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority.

Proudly Sponsored by:
Massy Stores SLU St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority - Slaspa

⚡ MEET OUR SPONSORS · LUCELEC ⚡

Some sponsors give to a cause. Some sponsors are part of the cause. LUCELEC is the latter. 🔋

Every phone, charger, tablet, our students are collecting in this Challenge runs on electricity. They were charged, powered, and brought to life by the very service LUCELEC provides every day.

And when those devices reach the end of their life, they become e-waste, one of the fastest-growing hazardous waste streams in the Caribbean. 🛑

That is why LUCELEC stepped up as a Green Champions Challenge sponsor. Because the company that powers Saint Lucia's homes and schools’ cares about what happens when the powered things stop working. 🌱✨

LUCELEC is the named sponsor of two campaign elements - both perfectly fitting the energy this company brings:

🏆 The LUCELEC Spark Award ⚡ - EC$1,000 for the First Runner-Up school, towards an identified school need. Spark because that is exactly what this sponsorship does: lights up environmental action where it matters most.

🎒 LUCELEC-branded Green Champions bags - for the winning school's teachers, administration, and ancillary staff.

That is what sponsorship looks like when it is aligned, intentional, and on mission. 🤝💚

Thank you, LUCELEC, for powering our Green Champions Challenge. 🙌
St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited

Waste Collection Will NOT Be Affected By The Upcoming Holiday

MEET OUR SPONSORS · Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority

“True champions care for community, coast, and country. At SLASPA, we believe protecting Saint Lucia’s environment is protecting our future.” 🌍✨

From the ports to the classrooms, SLASPA is showing what real leadership looks like. Their support empowers our five schools to collect E waste and aluminum cans - proving that sustainability is not just a goal, it’s a shared responsibility. ♻️👦👧

And SLASPA is going further: each of three schools that demonstrate meaningful participation will receive seed funding for an environmental project. Whether it’s a kitchen garden, a recycling corner, or a tree planting initiative, these projects will keep growing long after the competition ends. 🌱🍅🌳

Thank you, SLASPA, for planting something that lasts and for inspiring our students to be champions of community, coast, and country. 🙌🇱🇨

The Green Champions Challenge is organized by Greening the Caribbean, the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, and IDB Lab, with support from the Department of Education and Digital Transformation and the five school principals.




Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority - Slaspa

🏆 MEET OUR GREEN CHAMPION SPONSORS ·
Massy Stores SLU
The green champions challenge is on! This week we introduce and thank the sponsors making the Green Champions Challenge possible.

We start where this campaign starts: At home. Every old phone, every charger, every aluminium can that comes through a school gate during this Challenge started somewhere in someone's house. A drawer. A cupboard. A kitchen counter.

And Massy Stores is part of nearly every one of those St. Lucian homes. That is why we are so proud to announce that Massy Stores is the Title Sponsor of our top prize - the Massy Stores Champions Award. 🇸🇱✨

🎁 The school that collects the most e-waste and aluminium cans wins:

EC$1,500 in Massy Stores vouchers 🧾

Refreshments for every student 🥤

Television cameras at their school on announcement day 📺

This is community investment at its most beautiful: from the home to the bin, to the recycling centre, right back to a school in that community in the form of equipment, supplies, or whatever that school most needs.

💚 Thank you, Massy Stores, for closing the loop. For believing in our children. For showing up for Saint Lucia.

The Green Champions Challenge is organized by Greening the Caribbean, the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, and IDB Lab, with support from the Department of Education and Digital Transformation and the five school principals.

The Green Champions Challenge is LIVE!
The countdown is over and the collection begins.

📢 For the next three weeks, five schools -
🏫 Carmen Renee Memorial
🏫 Gordon & Walcott Methodist Memorial School
🏫 RC Boys School
🏫 Anglican Primary School
🏫 Ave Maria Girls School - are on a mission: collecting E waste and aluminum cans to protect our island. 🇱🇨✨

🏆 This isn’t just about prizes (though they’re exciting!). Students know that old electronics release toxic chemicals when dumped in landfills, harming our soil, water, and health. 🌍💧 By recycling, they’re showing real care for Saint Lucia’s future. 🙌💚

📣 To every student who chanted with us during assembly, every teacher and principal who said yes, and every parent already digging through drawers and cupboards – THANK YOU. 🙏 Free, set, recycle! Together, you are unstoppable. 🚀

🤝 The Green Champions Challenge is organized by Greening the Caribbean, the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, and IDB Lab, with support from the Department of Education and Digital Transformation and the five school principals.

✨ Sponsors - Massy Stores · LUCELEC · SLASPA.
Massy Stores SLU St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited Greening the Caribbean
Let’s go, champions! 💪

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Green ribbons. Green hearts. Ave Maria is ready. 💚
"How are you, Ave Maria Girls?"
"I am fine, and how are you?"

That was the greeting that welcomed us this morning. Sweet, in unison, and immediately heart-warming. We knew we were in for a treat.

Today we visited Ave Maria Girls' School, the fifth and final school to officially join the Green Champions Challenge! 🏆

You could see the school had been getting ready:

Green ribbons in the girls' hair.

Hints of green in the teachers' clothing.

A school visibly gearing up to compete.

The Ave Maria girls were eager. They engaged. They asked. And the questions kept coming:

🌍 Where does e-waste go if it isn't recycled?

🏢 Can we visit the Greening the Caribbean Recycling Centre at Odsan?

🗑️ Will the Green Champions bin stay at our school forever?

The answer to that last one is YES. The bins we deliver stay at all five participating schools, permanently. A community recycling drop-off point that lives on long after the competition closes on 12 June.

The assembly opened with prayer and song and closed with birthday celebrations for two of the girls. As we exited the school grounds, the Greening the Caribbean and SLSWMA team sang along too, grateful for a week of education, exchange, and a glimpse of the next generation already stepping into their role as Guardians. ✨

🗓️ Tuesday, 26 May — the Challenge begins.
Hundreds of children now Guardians & ready to act.

🤝 Organisers & Partners:
The Green Champions Challenge is organised by Greening the Caribbean, the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, and IDB Lab, with the support of the Department of Education and Digital Transformation and our five School Principals.

🔹 Sponsors: Massy Stores · LUCELEC · SLASPA
Massy Stores SLU St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited Greening the Caribbean

E-waste, we will bring it! Aluminium cans, we will bring it!

That is how the students at the Anglican Primary School sent us off this morning. Chanting. Together. On their feet.

We had only been there for fifteen minutes, but Anglican was ready from the moment we walked through the gate. And that energy carried us straight into the conversation.

We reminded them that Saint Lucia is small and that what we throw away doesn't go far. That if we want our island to look the way we tell the world it looks—clean, green, full of life, then we must take action. We have to take responsibility. For too long, we have left that work to other people. To "them." To "later."

This Challenge says something different. It says: the work belongs to all of us, and it starts with our young people.

We showed the students the simple test for an aluminium can—if you can squeeze it or crush it, it is an aluminium can. They tried it. They laughed. They got it.

Every Guardian who steps up at Anglican Primary, every child who brings in an old phone, an old charger, a single aluminium can is doing the work.

And they walked out chanting it. Again. And again. "E-waste, we will bring it! Aluminium cans, we will bring it!" 😊

One more school on Friday. Then we launch on Tuesday, 26 May.

The Green Champions Challenge is organised by Greening the Caribbean, the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, and IDB Lab, with the support of the Department of Education and Digital Transformation and the five School Principals.

Sponsors: Massy Stores · LUCELEC · SLASPA
Massy Stores SLU St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited Greening the Caribbean

Waste collections will not be impacted by the upcoming holiday.