Newtown School has a new Friendship Seat and it is made out of products that help people smile. The school won a park bench made out of recycled oral care waste as part of the recently wrapped Colgate Community Recycle Drive and chose to use it to make a Friendship Seat for students. A Friendship Seat would encourage new friendships around the school, year five student Estella War explained. "If you don't have anyone to play with you can sit down on it and if someone doesn't either or if a group doesn't they can pick you up from it and play with you," Estella said. Colgate and global recycling and upcycling pioneers, TerraCycle, created the Community Recycle Drive to call on New Zealand residents to recycle their used oral care items and raise funds for their local school, preschool, sporting club or community group. The drive is part of Oral Care Recycling Programme launched by Colgate and TerraCycle in October 2014, a recycling scheme in which Newtown School is an active collector. Newtown School was one of the top six collectors in the drive, collecting oral care waste such as toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and mouthwash bottles. As part of their prize, the students designed their own park bench made of oral care waste. "We believe it is important to do everything we can to care for our environment," said Newtown School teacher Tim Crawshaw. "What better way to manage our needed waste but to recycle it, rather than send it to landfill?"