Four school children faced driving rain and cascading towers of soft drink cans in Dublin this morning in an attempt to break the world record for the most aluminium cans stacked.
Despite their valiant efforts to make it into the Guinness Book of World Recordsthe children were only able to stack 17, missing the record of 25 cans by a small margin.
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Shane Canning(left), Oisin Keane(centre) and Dererca Ni Chiainan(right) who attempted to break the world can-stacking record this morning.
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Their attempt, in the atrium of the Steven’s Green Hotel, was part of an initiative to promote Ireland’s first national can recycling enterprise, - "Repak Cash for Cans".
By collecting cans for recycling, primary school children can receive funds for their schools.
The morning’s best attempt at reaching the magic number of 25 was made by Dererca Ni Chiainan from Scoil Naiti in Churchtown.
She told ireland.comthat stacking the cans was "fun, but takes a lot of concentration" and added that it became harder and harder as the cans became more "bashed".
Oisin Keane, from Carrigaholt National School, Co. Clare, said that the initiative was not only "good for the environment, but also a fun way to collect money for schools". When asked if he thought he would break the record, Mr Keane laughed and said: "No, but I’ll keep trying".
The other two children who made attempts at breaking the can-stacking record were Shane Canning and Robert Deegan from the Catherine McCauley National School on Baggot St in Dublin.
Repak, a compliance scheme established under an agreement between industry, the Department of the Environment, and local government, has organised the can-collecting initiative as an incentive to encourage recycling in school-aged children.