Novelis Recycling in the community

As part of a Novelis global initiative – Novelis Neighbour – through which the company aims to support the communities in which they are based – staff from the Novelis Recycling plant in Warrington left their usual work activities behind and gave up their time to support Science at Work Week at the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre in nearby Widnes.

Keith Guest of Novelis Recycling with some visitors to our stand

Novelis Recycling is a long term supporter of the museum which houses exhibits and interactive displays focusing on how science is part of our everyday lives. The interactive Alchemy theatre at the museum shows a specially developed film about Novelis Recycling featuring several members of personnel taking about their job and our business.

The purpose of the annual Science at Work event which takes place in June every year is to give young people an insight into the possible careers and industries within the science sector that are available to them when they leave school.

The Novelis team showed the children who visited the museum for this special event the process of recycling and reprocessing aluminium cans and talked to them about the types of jobs people do within the plant at Warrington. The children also had the chance to look at (and try on!) the protective clothing that’s needed to carry out many of these roles – giving them a true insight into the reality of working in this kind of environment.

Over the four days more than 750 visitors came through the exhibition. The children, from 18 different schools, were aged from 11 to 15 and came from both local schools and schools further afield in Stoke on Trent and Bolton.

Catalyst website – http://www.catalyst.org.uk/

Novelis education resources – www.thinkcans.net