The National Recycling Awards Announce Winners

Over 500 people came together to celebrate MRW’s National Recycling Awards last Wednesday night to celebrate the industry’s successes.

The event was held at the London Hilton on Park Lane, the first in-person National Recycling Awards since June 2019 and was host to businesses, organisations, schools, councils and individual from all across the UK.

The National Recycling Awards received 100’s of entries demonstrating the great collaboration and innovation the UK has had in helping reducing, reusing and recycling.

Many of The National Recycling Awards including SER attended the National Recycling Forum. The forum included panel discussions on how as an industry we can achieve net zero and how we act in the wake of COP26.

Corin Williams, MRW editor, said: “The judges were bowled over this year by the breadth and depth of the entries. It is amazing to see just how inventive and committed people can be.

“In the wake of COP26 and a growing worldwide push to conserve, reuse and recycle our resources, the NRAs 2021 winners are showing what can be achieved.

“At the end of a very challenging year for all of us, it is gratifying to see so many people letting their hair down and celebrating.”

The full list of 2021’s National Recycling Award’s Winners are as follows:

Circular Economy Initiative – Plastics – Winner: Tesco and Faerch – Tray to tray recycling
Circular Economy Initiative – WEEE/Hazardous Waste – Winner: Coventry University – Bioleaching for the recycling of precious metals from WEEE
Rising Star – Winner: Tia Wills = East Northamptonshire Council in partnership with FCC Environment
Food Waste Initiative – Winner: Veolia in partnership with Lambeth Council – Communal Food Waste Recycling Expansion
Recycling Excellence – Winner: Moy Park with Biffa – Recycling of contaminated LDPE
Smarter Systems Award – Winner: Air Products – Harnessing Industry 4.0 to Optimise Performance in the Aluminium Industry
Highly Commended: Winner: Greyparrot – AI Waste recognition system for recycling
Local Authority Success – Winner: East Riding of Yorkshire Council – Campaign to reduce nappy contamination
Partnership Excellence – Commercial- Winner: The Green Parts Specialists and Ageas Insurance – Recycled Green Parts for vehicle repairs
Highly Commended: Winner: Clean Tech UK and BioteCH4 – PET recycling powered by food waste recycling
Partnership Excellence – Public/private sector – Winner: Veolia with Westminster City council – West End reopening
Employer Initiative of the Year – Winner: O’Donovan Waste Disposal – Dynamo welfare project
Team of the Year – Winner: ODS – Oxford City Council – Recycling and waste team
Social value initiative – Organisation – Winner: Neighbourly – Surplus redistribution programme
Highly Commended: ELITE Paper Solutions – Creating opportunities for people with disabilities
Social Value Initiative – Project – Winner: Shred Station – The ‘Frontline Faceshields’ project
Innovation Award – Winner: Levenseat and Innovative Ash Solutions – Using treated ACPr in civil engineering
Innovation Award – Systems & Technology – Winner: FRC Group – UltraClean mattress cleaning and reuse machine
Recycling Facility of the Year – Winner: Davis Commercial Services – Commercial Refrigeration Processing and Treatment Facility, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire.
Campaign of the Year – Small – Winner: One Trafford Partnership (Trafford Council with Amey) – Paper Blues
Campaign of the Year – Large – Winner: University of Southampton – The TRACE project
Recycled Product of the Year – Winner: Morph Bricks Ltd – sustainable modular construction system
Circular Economy Initiative – Winner: Tamlite Lighting in partnership with EWRG – The Tamlite Circular Economy

Andes Mountains Hydro Power - Chile

Located in the Tinguiririca River upper valley, this Hydroelectric project is around 120km south of Santiago, Chile. Known as La Confluencia, the 163 MW run of river hydro power plant utilizes the hydrological resources of the Tinguiririca, Portillo and Azufre Rivers, in a run of river scheme to generate and supply zero emission energy to the Chilean central electricity grid (SIC). The power plant generates certified emission reductions (CERs) by displacing electricity generation from grid connected fossil fuel-fired power plants that would otherwise be generating electricity.

Environmental Sustainability

The primary objective of the proposed project is to help meet Chile’s rising demand for energy due to its economic growth and to improve the supply of electricity, while contributing to the environmental, social (job creation in the construction phase, and infrastructure enhancements in surrounding municipalities) and economic sustainability by increasing renewable energy’s share on the Chilean electricity consumption. The Project activity improves the supply of electricity with clean, renewable hydroelectric power while contributing to the regional/local economic development.

Social Development

Through the “Tinguiririca Participa” grant program, the project directly finances proposals presented by community organisation, in areas such as healthcare, education, and social change. In the first year of the program, the joint venture financed 11 projects, while today the number of projects surpasses 200. All of these initiatives are aimed at meeting community needs.

Flora and Fauna

In addition to social projects, reforestation of around 120 hectares around the site has been implemented, helping protect and improve the local flora and fauna, with a specific impact on local Tricahue Parrot, Torrent Duck, Freshwater Catfish, Torrent Duck and Freshwater Catfish species.

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