Competing against over five hundred other nominees, Shred Station has been confirmed as one of the winners of the prestigious awards and will be presented with their trophy at the Houses of Parliament in November.
On top of their numerous environmental commitments, the award comes as recognition of the company’s involvement in the Frontline Faceshields project. The project was started by Colin Breckons, a man local to Shred Station’s Norwich head office, and involved 3D printing face shields for NHS and key workers during the height of the pandemic’s first wave. At the time, there was a national PPE shortage and no vaccine in sight, making the project even more vital for frontline workers in East Anglia and beyond.
Shred Station took the plastic waste generated from the 3D printing process and granulated it into small 2-3mm fragments. This meant it could be reused to create even more masks, and also diverted the plastic from landfill. Shred Station’s CarbonNeutral® status reduced the project’s emissions even further. By the project’s end, over fifty thousand face shields had been distributed.
Shred Station’s Marketing Manager, Emily Bridges, says:
“We are delighted to win a Green Apple award. We’ve been told the quality of entries this year were very high, so it’s a great achievement for the businesses”.
Ms Bridges adds,
“The fact we kept that part of the project green was, of course, fantastic. But the real win was being able to reuse the granules so volunteers could make more face shields. At the time, it was a lifeline that, sadly, not everyone had. Receiving this award is a reminder of how relentless the virus was in that time, but also how communities can pull together even in the worst of times”.
