Linc Pen has reiterated its commitment to saving the environment through its “Refill more” project.

This project aims at making consumers conscious about protecting the environment. It educates them about the adverse effects of plastics on the environment and how everyone can play their part in reducing the use of the same. The campaign promotes an increased use of refills since refills contain a lesser quantity of plastic.

The “Refill More” Campaign mainly targets the school and college students. The project will be carried out in schools during Linc Pen’s annual Spellinc competition. As a part of this initiative, drop boxes will be set up in schools where students can drop off empty refills and pens so that plastic can be recycled in a more environment friendly way. Free refills will also be distributed across schools and colleges to encourage this initiative.

SPELLINC, an inter school spelling competition, which has entered its 11th consecutive year is an annual event that tests the English vocabulary skills of school children of standard VIII to X.

The SPEL LINC contest over the years has gained immense popularity amongst students and has grown in stature with increased participation. The competition started initially from Kolkata but is now gradually spreading to various other cities in the country.

The procedure of selecting the final candidates in each city is as follows: First, preliminary competitions are held in each of the schools (about 150 in number) across the city/state and 3 finalists from each school are selected to represent their schools in the grand finale. Around 450 students from these schools gather at a common event for the SPELLINC grand finale to vie for the winner’s trophy and other attractive gift hampers and certificates.

Mr. Deepak Jalan, Managing Director, Linc Pen & Plastics Ltd was present on the SPELLINC Grand Finale 2010 in Bengal to give away the awards. Mr. Jalan said on the occasion, “SPEL LINC is a one of its kind event, where so many schools participate on one platform and the students get an opportunity to put their knowledge & skills to test. We are really proud to be able to organize such an event every year and hope more and more students can participate in the years to come.”

The competition which has seen participation of about 2,00,000 participants over the years has received overwhelming response not only from the participants but also from various school heads.