Wakefield recycling officer wins national award

Described as “a complete multi-tasker” by the judges, Ms Greenwood has tackled a wide variety of responsibilities including kerbside recycling, green procurement, the introduction of permits for CA site and other initiatives.

The Recycled Product of the Year was won by bpi-recycled products for signs made out of Plaswood – a 100% recycled plastic alternative to timber, concrete and metal. Since 2001 it has supplied more than 2,500 signs for English Nature.

Recycling officer of the year: Julie Greenwood

The London Borough of Camden won an award for Local Authority Initiative with its installation of on-street newspaper recycling banks.

The Industry Recycling Initiative award was won by Apex compost which is produced by a marketing partnership formed between three waste management companies– SITA UK, Onyx and Cleanaway – and specialist soil company Freeland Horticulture.

Partnership Project for Recycling was awarded to Project Integra for its decision to provide a solution to the processing of glass in Hampshire through the collective marketing of materials. This meant Integra could invite private companies to bid for constructing processing facilities with Midland Glass appointed.

Waste Minimisation Project was won by community group Green-Works which operates a waste minimisation programme that reuses redundant office furniture and equipment.

Wombles

The Information and Communication Campaign was won by Crawley borough council which decided to use the Wombles to advertise its RedBox paper recycling scheme. Judges felt that in a campaign “powerful, straightforward and universally recognised images are necessary”.

Community Project award went to Recycling Ollerton and Boughton, a project involving disabled and special needs employees. Judges were impressed at how the project has grown from strength to strength and now covers 4,000 households with collection of a variety of materials.

The Reprocessing Initiative award was awarded to glass collector Berryman for “becoming the first glass recycling company in the world to successfully use automatic detectors to remove pyro-ceramic from recycled glass.”