Established by letsrecycle.com and now in their ninth year, the awards recognise and reward organisations for their efforts to reduce the amount of resources they waste.
The scheme has more than 500 members and aims to provide a platform for winners to collaborate to reduce their environmental impact.
Entries are broken up into 10 different categories, such as construction or retail and leisure, enabling organisations to benchmark themselves against those in the same sector.
Entrants are assigned a ranking by industry experts under a star system. Five stars, the highest award, means an organisation has invested in the principle of continuous improvement and actively demonstrates Zero Waste achievements.
Five companies received five stars at the ceremony: facilities management company ISS Facilities Services; food and garden waste recycling business Keenan Recycling; a team from real estate services company Savills who work on The Post Building in London; industrial automation company Sewtec Automation Limited; and clinical, sharps and hazardous waste disposal company Sharpsmart UK.
A full list of this year’s award winners in alphabetical order can be seen below.
Climate crisis
Steve Eminton, the editor of letsrecycle.com who presented the awards, hailed the recipients for tackling the climate crisis by helping to make better use of resources and reduce global emissions.
He noted that early entries into the awards from 2013 focused on waste reduction and efficiencies, such as avoiding landfill and the reuse of equipment, while many now mentioned emissions data.
Mr Eminton said: “The world is facing a crisis on many fronts from the loss of natural diversity through to the harm from greenhouse gases where almost half of the emissions come from producing and consuming food and goods.
“So, the importance of using fewer raw materials and recycling and reusing as much as possible as well as reducing waste is absolutely imperative.”
He added: “What I find particularly heartening about the work of all those who have entered the awards process is that so much of what you do is not compulsory, nor is the level of effort put in.”
Letsrecycle.com and ROARB2B run a calendar of awards and one-day conferences which can be found here.
Winners
Five-star recipients
ISS Facilities Services
Keenan Recycling
Savills – The Post Building
Sewtec Automation Limited
Sharpsmart UK
Four-star recipients
Apleona UK
Axil Integrated Services Ltd with LEVC
Binit
Bristol Waste Company
Little Freddie Organic Baby Food
Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority
Mitie Waste with McCormick
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
PermiServ LTD
Plastic Energy
Redrow
Renewi
RMF Installation and Services Ltd
Savills – Ropemaker Place
Sleepeezee Ltd
The Langham Hotel London with Veolia
WEEE Solutions Limited
Three-star recipients
Bakers Waste Services Ltd
Cireco Scotland
envoPAP Limited
Plumstead Pantry
RM
Roadvert
Savills – Cannon Place
Thermac Hire Ltd
WRAP
Two-star recipients
Item Products Ltd
Litterlotto
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