Trinity Catholic College have challenged their students to bring in ordinary plastic lids from home to help a Canberra based charity called Lids4Kids.

Vicki Evans, the head of Darcy House at Trinity, said "Pauline Leeson, our Career Advisor left a notice in the staff room which led to a broader discussion to involve the students".

The result was an inter-house competition where students could earn points for their respective house (there are 10 different houses at Trinity) which goes towards the year ending Delaney Cup. This has been running since the start of term and ends at the end of week 9.

The concept is very simple and one that Vicki hopes will encourage more families to get involved.

Simply collect all your lids from milk, juice and water bottles and throw them into a plastic container and take them to Trinity. They must be screw top lids, the harder pop-up style lids are not accepted.

If you would like to contribute to this amazing charity and your children go to a different school or if you don't have children, collect the lids at home and drop them off to Lucey Kingsley on the second floor of the Lismore Library at 110 Magellan Street.

Lucey told the Lismore App the collection point only started up again last week following its closure due to COVID in March.

Lids4Kids has been so successful since founder Tim Miller started the charity in mid 2019 with a little green bin outside the street library near his home. Following media attention the charity exploded so much so there are over 7,000 collection points across Australia.

Envision Hands initially took the plastic lids to make children mobility products, however they hit a problem with quality control so now the millions of lids collected are looking for different recycled plastic lid projects to help the community like school buddy benches, seats and tables and equipment for schools and kindergartens.

In the meantime, Lids4Kids is looking for a new home to store tonnes of plastic lids because Tim Millers double garage is full.

Another way to help the environment and another charity is the collection of plastic bread clips. Once you have collected a container full drop them off Lucey and the team at the Lismore Library. These go towards the Aussie Bread tags For Wheelchairs charity where the tags are recycled locally, raising money to supply wheelchairs to disadvantaged people in South Africa.

So, from this point on, don't throw out your screw top plastic lids or bread clips. Place them in a container and take them to Lucey at the Lismore Library or if you have a student at Trinity get them to take them into school.