valpak award entry form

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valpak member no. (if applicable)
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surname *
job title
organisation *
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award category *	Best Partnership This award will recognise partnerships between Local Authorities, producer compliance schemes, the community sector, retailers, service providers (contractors and AATFs) and others to provide a recycling or WEEE collection service, an investment, a research project or a change which has increased packaging or WEEE recycling rates. It can be a partnership between a reprocessor and a number of Local Authorities, a market development programme which has brought together the public, private and community sectors, or a multi-partner project which has shown a commitment to change and improvement, and a desire to reduce the duplication of effort and drive more packaging or WEEE from the waste stream. This can also include work with Local Authorities on Civic Amenity sites and retailer take-back initiatives. Entries should consider training programmes, public awareness campaigns, treatment processes, job creation, reuse and other benefits of the WEEE or packaging partnership. Open to : All Most Innovative Local Authority This award will recognise the Local Authority that has shown innovation through a project relating to the packaging or WEEE regulations. The project can have been achieved through a variety of methods including kerbside collections, bring banks and household / Civic Amenity waste sites. Open to: Local Authorities Best Resource Management Project This award will recognise the move towards resource management and the carbon agenda. The private sector has been challenged to reduce its impact on the environment and this award will recognise the efforts of businesses in taking up the challenge. Entrants should detail the steps they went through to assess their impact in the first instance, and then describe the policies, actions and long term plans that they have put in place to start to reduce their impact. policies and actions they put in place to start to reduce their impact. The entry should also detail successes and measured results of their actions. Open to: All Young Person's Environmental Innovation This award is open to the next generation of recyclers and business people who have taken on the challenge of resource management. Valpak is looking to identify young individuals who have shown innovation, commitment and drive in the field of recycling and resource management. They may have designed a new product, set up a new business venture or have outstanding ideas to reduce, reuse and recycle waste materials. Open to: persons aged 21 and under Best Community Recycling Initiative This award will commend an organisation that has implemented an initiative which demonstrates a beneficial commitment to educating and promoting the importance of recycling within the local community. Open to: All Best Educational Schools Campaign This award will recognise an organisation that has implemented an innovative recycling campaign which promotes awareness in local schools. Open to: All Best Investment of PRN Funds This award will recognise the best reinvestment of PRN funds into the reprocessing system to facilitate the removal of packaging from the waste stream. This can include: increases in capacity and infrastructure enhancement of capacity product development price support partnership working with local authority Open to: Reprocessors (members and those with whom we have contracts)

name of project * (full details to be submitted via the nomination form)