This year we asked you to submit some of your best ideas for recycling themed Christmas cracker jokes. We had some exceptional submissions – for both good and bad reasons!
To laugh away the January blues why not have a look at some of our best entries.
Winner
We are also pleased to announce the winner of this year’s competition is Steven Watson, junior consultant at Eunomia, who had the letsrecycle.com team in fits of laughter with his effort:
Steven will receive a bottle of champagne and free entry to one of letsrecycle.com’s one-day conferences taking place in 2016.
Speaking to letsrecycle.com Steven expressed his delight at winning, and revealed that this is not his first foray into waste-based humour, having authored an April Fool’s Day column in a trade magazine, and performed as a member of Eunomia’s in-house comedy band ‘Dirty MRF and the Kerbside Sorters’.
He said: “I am very pleased to have won, it is an honour. As source separation is quite key to EU thinking around waste I was trying to reflect the major themes in waste policy.”
Special mention also goes to Mahfuz Uddin, waste intelligence assistant at the London borough of Barnet, for his quip:
Mahfuz wins a complementary spot at this year’s Remunicipalisation Conference to be hosted by letsrecycle.com in London on January 28.
Commenting, he said: “It is always good to know that people appreciate my cheesy jokes!”
Thanks to all those who entered, a selection of our best entries is displayed below.
The Christmas competition sponsor, London-based McGrath, has been providing the construction and civil engineering sectors with waste management services for more than 40 years.
Perhaps this is the reason why Eunomia keep getting their forecasts wrong, because they are inventing poor (by any standard) jokes.