Now in its eighth year, the awards recognise the achievements and hard work of local authority recycling officers and their colleagues over the past 12 months.
Spanning six categories, awards include the Best Communications Campaign, Best Partnership Award, Team of the Year, Best Waste Minisation or Prevention Project, Best New Idea and the coveted Recycling Officer of the Year Award.
Officers from Rochdale, Warwickshire and Westminster have all been shortlisted for the individual prize. Aberdeen, Calderdale, Solihull and Durham councils were among the finalists in other categories.
Challenges
Commenting on the 2016 finalists, Lee Marshall, chief executive of LARAC, said: “Yet again the judging panel was hugely impressed by the innovative ideas and hard work that recycling officers continue to demonstrate on a daily basis – despite some tough challenges throughout the year.
“This year we had some really positive entries, many of which show the vital job that council officers are doing up and down the country to provide good quality services and raise awareness of recycling to the general public.”
Lee Marshall
LARAC
“This year we had some really positive entries, many of which show the vital job that council officers are doing up and down the country to provide good quality services and raise awareness of recycling to the general public.”
The winners will be announced at a presentation dinner at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on the evening of October 12 – following the first day of the annual LARAC conference.
There are still places available for the LARAC Conference and Celebration Awards, book your place today at: http://www.laracconference.org.uk/
LARAC 2016 is organised by letsrecycle.com.
The 2016 finalists in full:
Best Communications Campaign
Rochdale Borough Council, Recycling Saves Money
Recycle For Greater Manchester, R4GM Food Waste Recycling
Surrey County Council, Recycle Food Waste 2015/16
Aberdeen City Council, Love Your Caddy
Best Partnership Award, Sponsored by Viridor
Calderdale, The Floods of Calderdale
South Staffs & Biffa Municipal, Safer Driving Campaign
Solihull Council, Follow the Path to Recycling
City of Cardiff, Keep Roath Tidy
Team of the Year, Sponsored by Environmental Waste Controls
Woking Borough Council Waste & Recycling Team
Dorset Waste Partnership – Operation Division
Rochdale Borough Council
Chelmsford City Council
Best Waste Minimisation or Prevention Project, Sponsored by Repic
Durham County Council, Green Move Out Campaign
South Derbyshire District Council & Sainsbury’s, Waste Less Save More
South Ayrshire Council: Beach Restoration Project
Best New Idea, Sponsored by Suez
Recycle for Greater Manchester and Bolton Council, ESOL Resources
Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority: We Are Stardust
South Ayrshire Council: Beach Restoration Project
Recycling Officer of the Year, Sponsored by Countrystyle Group
David Whitehouse, Warwickshire County Council
Edward Yendluri, Westminster City Council
Dave Leeming, Rochdale Council
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