This year's presentation of the awards, which aim to showcase innovation, dedication and success in recycling and sustainable waste management, will be on October 17 in London's Savoy Hotel.
 Awards 2006: Retail Recycling Champion PDM Group |
Categories
This year's categories are:
- Best Local Authority Recycling Initiative – sponsored by Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Europe
- Innovation in Design of a Waste Management Facility – sponsored by ESTET (the Environmental Services Training and Education Trust)
- Civic Amenity Site of the Year – sponsored by Transform, the Biffa WEEE compliance scheme
- Commercial Recycling Champion – sponsored by Valpak
- Local Authority Recycling Champion – sponsor to be confirmed
- Waste Management Initiative in the Commercial or Public Sector – sponsored by Shanks
- High Street Recycling Champion – sponsored by Severnside
- Best Community Recycling Initiative – sponsor to be confirmed
- Collection Crew of the Year – sponsored by SITA UK
The event is organised by letsrecycle.com in association with Resource Management and Recovery Magazine.
It is supported by Defra's Waste Implementation Programme, the Environmental Services Association, the Environment Agency and the National Association of Waste Disposal Officers. Wastepack will sponsor the pre-lunch drinks at the awards presentation.
Judges
This year's judging panel is lead by Chris Davey, WRAP's local authority relations manager.
It also includes Barbara Herridge, North London Waste Authority; Kamila Horak, senior development manager at DHL Exel Supply Chain; Mark Shelton, Cambridgeshire County Council's waste policy manager; David Symmers, chief executive of the
Independent Waste Paper Processors Association; Matthew Thomson, chief executive of the London Community Recycling Network; Mike Walker, Environmental Services Association's policy director and letsrecycle.com's editor Steve Eminton.
Mr Eminton said: “The awards have built year on year in the three years since they were launched, both in terms of the quantity and quality of entries received.”
“They serve as a wonderful showcase of all the good work going on in the recycling and waste management sector,” he added.
Awards 2006
Last year's awards attracted more than 170 entries. The winners included a train operator which achieved a 50% recycling rate on board its trains; a major soft drinks company employee who helped improve recycling rates and waste reduction; a local authority that introduced a successful kitchen waste collection scheme and a three-man collection crew, all ex-miners, with a combined age of 181 (see letsrecycle.com story).
WRAP's then chief executive Jennie Price, told letsrecycle.com: It has never been more timely to showcase the achievements of the recycling industry.
“To deliver the necessary magnitude of change in waste management and recycling requires significant innovation and imagination and these awards help to demonstrate and reward the progress being made,” she added.
Closing date for entries is September 4, and entries should be sent to letsrecycle.com, Capital Tower, 91 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8RT.
Entry
Entrants must submit a 500-750 word summary of how they have achieved their success, which must primarily cover the 2006/07 financial year. Supporting material should help explain the entry and may include printed matter, statistical data, photographs, copies of media coverage and where appropriate, product samples.
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Entries must be accompanied by full contact details and include the entry form, which may be downloaded from the awards website.
Further information is available from Vicki McKellar on 020 7633 4500.
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