Award recipients included the Oak Farm community composting scheme in Shropshire, which was named Community Recycling Champion for its project which employs people with learning disabilities; a successful health and safety initiative by Grundon’s which won the Health and Safety Best Practice accolade; and, a portable site welfare unit produced by Balfour Beatty, which won the Sustainable Product Development category.
“Developing a more sustainable approach to waste and resources has never made more sense – both in environmental and economic terms,” said CIWM chief executive Steve Lee.
“CIWM is delighted to recognise the achievements of our award winners, who have demonstrated how innovation, commitment and partnership working, and active community engagement can deliver real improvements and behaviour change.”
WINNERS:
Sustainable Product Development: Balfour Beatty Plant & Fleet Services for its Ecolootion unit, a portable ‘site welfare unit’ (washroom) which is environmentally friendly in design and operation, and can be powered by on-board batteries
Sustainable Construction & Demolition Project: John Sisk & Son Ltd for its €120m design and build Mater Campus Hospital Development in Dublin, where a strategic approach was taken from the outset to designing out waste and delivering high levels of recycling
Community Recycling Champion: Shropshire Council’s Oak Farm for its Community Composting Scheme, which is run by people with learning disabilities who champion local recycling by encouraging residents to participate in the scheme, as well as in other recycling activities in the village.
Sustainable Facilities Management Performance: NIDO Spitalfields for the commitment of the NIDO Student Living team to increasing re-use and recycling by getting staff and students on board, and involving local charities and waste contractor Viridor.
Vehicle, Plant and Equipment: BAE Systems for its Hybridrive technology, specially adapted for waste vehicles to reduce emissions and deliver fuel savings.
Innovative Practice in Waste Management and Resource Recovery (SME): Brilliant Bins for its disposable feminine hygiene waste bin that is low cost, eliminates the vehicle miles necessary for conventional exchange-bin schemes, and reduces the chemicals, water and energy used for cleaning the bins.
Innovative Practice in Waste Management and Resource Recovery: UCL with MITIE for their partnership working to develop a new approach to dealing with the 250 tonnes/year of healthcare and clinical waste from UCL’s 23 teaching and research laboratories, delivering significant environmental and cost benefits.
Recycling Performance of the Year (SME): Land Network International Ltd for its work on a ‘closed loop’ approach that recycles urban waste to farm land to produce a crop that is processed into biodiesel and pure plant oil.
Recycling Performance of the Year: J & G Environmental Ltd for its ethical approach to industrial waste disposal which has resulted in a 95% recycling rate for the waste it collects thanks to investment in new machinery and research into new recycling methods for challenging waste streams such as toner powder from the digital print sector.
Health and Safety Best Practice: Grundon Waste Management Ltd for a two-year Health & Safety improvement programme to change the culture at every level within the organisation.
Communications Campaign: metalmatters for its use of research and consumer testing to develop an effective metals campaign that was successfully piloted with over 60,000 households in two local authority areas.
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