The sole gala event rewarding and recognising the recycle and waste sector’s excellence, The National Recycling Awards are back for 2008 and are requesting for charities, councils and companies to enter so they might have a chance winning one of the prestigious awards. Widely acclaimed as the benchmark for the recycling sector, for more than ten years the National Recycling Awards have been celebrating excellent practice in the private and public industry. The prestigious National Recycling Awards is an event organised by ‘Materials Recycling Week’ and are open to any company, community group or organisation which is involved by recycling issues, plays ... Full Story

Recycle Week is being celebrated this week across the UK and Scotland will be participating with its own line up of special events. In Scotland, the week marked the launch of the 2008 Scottish Waste Resources Awards. The Awards were organized by Eventful Scotland. The Awards are designed to recognize and reward the best practices in the Scottish sectors of waste, recycling and resource management, as well as innovations in those areas. With the launch of the awards, Eventful Scotland has began accepting entries in four categories. The actual awards ceremony will take place on October 8th this year in Glasgow at ... Full Story

A company based n Cornwall was recently awarded its third awards scheme in the past year, earning a hat trick for the WEEE processing company. The Electronic Waste Company’s Managing Director was the award recipient. Damian Lambkin was named the Young Business Person of the Year this year in the Cornwall Business awards. Last year, the British Chamber of Commerce named the Electronic Waste Company the "Most Promising New Business" in the region. Nor is this the first award for Mr. Lambkin was named the "Best Individual" in the Cornwall Sustainability Awards. Under the A1 Compliance brand, the Electronic Waste Company operates the ... Full Story

Students at Loughborough are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental impact, in part because of the work of their student’s union. Steve Black, the union’s vice president of finance and commercial services, said: “We aren’t just aiming our environmental policy at our own staff, but the whole student population of Loughborough.” The union’s environmental activities, Black explained, encompass not only the 14,000 students in attendance at the educational institution, but also the 4,000 attending college courses in the city, and 1,000 distance learners. One of the most important activities the union holds to promote environmental awareness is Reality Check week. Occurring on an ... Full Story

Students in schools throughout Flintshire have won prestigious awards for their contribution in making the county greener by recycling old Yellow Pages directories. Six schools throughout Flintshire were awarded as part of the countrywide Yellow Woods recycling scheme, run by Yellow pages. The Yellow Woods recycling scheme encourages students throughout the United Kingdom to amass as many old copies of the Yellow Pages and take them to their respective schools for recycling. From Caerwys, Ysgol yr Esgob won the top Gold Oak Award for Flintshire and were also presented with a cash prize of three hundred pounds for the largest rise in ... Full Story

The list of those who scooped the ‘More Than Recycling’ Awards which is run by Community Recycling Network for Scotland has been made public. Among those who walked away with prizes at the award ceremony which was held in Perth included Highland Council, Enviroglass and Moray Recycling Action Group's Green Home initiative. The aim of the ‘More Than Recycling’ Awards is to acknowledge initiatives that had a big impact in 2007 on recycling in the Scottish community. Over forty five organisations were in contention for the three prizes available. In the Innovation Category, Enviroglass, which is run by the Shetland Amenity Trust, won. ... Full Story

Nominees for the Green Watch Heroes Awards have been received and are representative of all sections of the society. The nominees include educational institutions, business organisations and even families. The awards are being run by Gazette Newspapers in conjunction with Southern Electric, a local supplier of electricity. The intention of the Green Watch Heroes Awards is to acknowledge and appreciate the tireless efforts of people in making Deane and Basingstoke a safer, cleaner and greener place to live and work in. Kempshott Infant School has been nominated by Debbie Grace, whose son attended the school in his earlier years. In her nomination letter ... Full Story

A recycling service operated by Falkirk Council has achieved tremendous success and has been picked for a major recycling award. Falkirk Council is a contender for the local authority partnership award during this year’s Community Recycling Network for Scotland awards which are held annually. Falkirk Council together with Action Recycle has been able to ensure the provision of a waste recycling collection service to nine-tenths of all multi-occupancy properties in its area of jurisdiction. One of the services Action Recycle offers is the "blue bag" service. The ‘blue bag’ services focuses on the recycling of dry waste such as newspapers, magazines and ... Full Story

MDJ Light Brothers, a specialist waste and recycling processor, based in Daventry, UK is off to a great start in 2008.  They have been nominated for the National Recycling Awards for 2007, and are finalists in the competition. Managing director Jonathan Light commented that it was great to be short-listed for a major award as it brought to light the hard work and ingenuity of the people who worked there as well as the close customer relationships. He went on to say that the firm had invested millions in technology, systems, premises, and vehicles to assist in UK electronics recycling, and it ... Full Story

At the Midem Green World Awards in Cannes, France will honour three of the world’s largest music concerts, LiveEarth, Denmark’s Roskilde Festival, and Paleo Festival Nyon.  The awards recognise festivals that have promoted a greater awareness of environmental issues. LiveEarth set a goal to create “green guidelines” in order to create a “low-impact” event.  The concert series was featured around the world, and included a show at London’s Wembley stadium.  The concert series took place in July 2007, and the show’s theme was to create awareness of climate change. Roskilde, in Denmark, is one of Europe’s largest music festivals.  At the event, ... Full Story

Old Chapel Forge Bed & Breakfast in Sussex, UK won the prestigious 7 tree rating, the first ever awarded from TheBestGreenHotels.com for its ‘green tourism’ and environmentally friendly hotel practices. TheBestGreenHotels.com is a leading ratings service focused on environmentally friendly hotel all over the world. The Old Chapel Forge B&B is an AA 4-star hotel with a unique building site.  It is built in and around a 1611 chapel building. The hotel was first recognized in 2006 with a Gold award from the UK’s Green Tourism Business Scheme. “To us, green tourism is not a product to be tagged on to a holiday; ... Full Story