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Creative waste material management ideas; the issue whose significance cannot possibly be neglected or overestimated. This year there have been 93 applications for the contest; the contestants came from all over the country. The jury panel was presided by a famous pottery designer Marek Cecuła. The competition prizes were presented by the jury panel members: Professor Wiesław Łuczaj of the Design Dapartmet at the UJK University and the EcoFamily trade fair manager Mrs Monika Witek. And the contest winners are:

• I place for bicycle light casing – Przemysław Kamiński and Marcin Karpiński from Gdańsk (cash prize of 3 000 PLN)
• II place for laptop loudspeakers – Robert Szwarczyński from Wrocław (cash prize of 2,000 PLN)
• III place for the lamp made of 149 cans – Joanna Góra from Górne (cash prize of 1,000 PLN)
• Commendation for a notepad and pen base– Jakub Kaznowski from Grzybowa Góra
• Commendation for a jewellery set Anna Ludwicka z Warszawy
• Special mention for a radio set- Robert Szwarczyński from Wrocław
The main motif of the 2nd National Creative Recycling Contest I CAN was to find a the way to re-use the drink cans produced by Coca-Cola HBC Polska Plc(Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola light, Coca-Cola zero, Cherry Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Nestea, Burn).

The contest was dedicated to all possible areas of design; furniture, lighting, things and accessories used every day, landscape architecture items, gadgets, toys, packaging and visual communication. This competition provided people with a wonderful pretext to make their imagination work, to break out of the old habits through which the world and the things which exist in it are perceived. This was also the possibility to use the creation act in order to rationalise and economise on production; but first and foremost it was an irreplaceable satisfaction driven from your inventiveness, using your wits to create a brand new thing out of existing ones.