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Recycling Project from Turkey Wins This Year's Volvo AdventureThe first prize in the Volvo Adventure 2006 competition went to Koç School from Istanbul which carried out a project entitled "Recycled Boxes for Education".
The team's four youngsters have produced school desks from recycled juice and milk boxes.
The desks were then donated to schools in underprivileged areas.
Fredrik Arp, President and CEO of Volvo Cars, handed over the 10,000 US dollar prize, which will be used to finance the group's continued pro-environmental work.
The 2006 Volvo Adventure gave the international jury a tough job.
"All 10 projects in this year's final were of particularly high quality," says Theodore Oben from the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) and chairman of the Volvo Adventure jury.
Nonetheless, after many hours of consideration the jury decided that first prize should be awarded to the Turkish team.
Theodore Oben explains: "The project is innovative and the youngsters have truly succeeded in creating awareness of the issue of waste, recycling and sustainable development."
According to the winning team's calculations, more than 6 billion milk and juice boxes end up on Turkish refuse tips every year.
The project's goal was to increase recycling of these containers. At the same time, the 16-year old team members - who are also involved in social work - wanted to contribute
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