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Hapnot Student Council is asking its student body to save their soup labels in exchange for house league points. Labels from all types of Campbell's products, as well as Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers and V8 Splash products are eligible for redemption under Campbell's Labels for Education program, which Hapnot Collegiate is taking part in this year. "With these labels we can order merchandise through Campbell's," said Chris Sweryda, a grade 11 student council representative. "There is a catalogue of products that can be ordered for the school. Products range from basketballs to new computers and books for the library." Students can drop the labels off at the Hapnot Collegiate library or at a drop off box at the co-op. Labels must include the front panel and the UPC symbol, except for the Goldfish crackers, where only the UPC is necessary. The Canadian Labels for Education program started in 1998 following the success of the US program. This school support program encourages registered schools or institutions to collect labels from Campbell's products and redeem them for educational resources. In Canada, the program has over 6,300 institutions registered and more than 22 million labels have been collected. In the US, the program has run for over 29 years with 78,000 institutions registered. Also at Hapnot Collegiate, a new fundraising initiative allows the school to raise money and save the planet at the same time. Students can collect used ink cartridges which will be turned in at the office, and the school will be reimbursed for most of the cartridges they collect, including shipping and handling. It is a good fundraiser for the school, as there is no selling involved. More importantly, it teaches the students that it is easy to make a small effort to save the planet. For every ink cartridge turned in, it is one less new one that needs to be made, and one cartridge that will never decompose in our landfills.12/3/04
