HELLO all you champions of change! After the huge success in 2009 of WOW – Wipe Out Waste, Footprint Friends and powerPerfector are excited to announce the Wipe Out Waste competition for 2010 is now open! Check out the Film!

Students from any school in the country are invited to present their ideas for reducing waste to help save resources and our environment. Their ideas will be judged by a panel of green dragons - some of the Biggest names in climate change.

The winning teams and their teacher(s) will be asked to be a part of taking their WOW idea into production nationwide. The winning school will have a complimentary powerPerfector unit installed by the awards sponsor, enabling the school to potentially reduce their energy usage by up to 20% !

2009 Result - Congratulations to all our Contestants

‘The most fantastic presentations I have seen on the topic – ever. They would certainly give my students a run for their money.’

Professor Bill McGuire - WOW judge

The quality of the submissions for the 2009 Wipe Out Waste Awards was inspiring! The students pitches were beyond expectation with in depth research, facts a figures to support their Wipe Out Waste idea: the judges had to make some tough decisions.

Congratulations to the WINNERS of the WOW 2009

Canon Burrows C.E. Primary school

Students: Miah, Ewen, Oliver and Rebecca
Teacher: Suzanne Fildes
WOW idea: Stop throwing away perfectly good pencils!

Making your ideas work

To help fight climate change, ideas on their own are not enough! Footprint Friends and powerPerfector are hard at work putting the winning WOW idea from 2009 - an ingenious invention to save half the pencils used in the UK into production. The waste saving device will be used by schools across the country.

Have you got what it takes to WOW?

One idea can change the world, one clever idea could Wipe Out Waste for ever – this is history in the making – if you have a mind that buzzes with ideas – we’d love to hear about them.