Entries should comprise a summary of the project (500-750 words) with supporting material, e.g., photos, press articles. Entries should be based on the period January-December 2008 although relevant material can be submitted for work prior to 2008 and from 2009 to show that successes are continuing. To read the rules for your nomination please click here

• valpak award for excellence - an individual recognition award
• best partnership
• recycle-more award - most innovative local authority
• best community recycling initiative
• best educational school's campaign
• best weee partnership
• best carbon reduction initiative
• best resource management programme
• young person's environmental innovation Award

This award will recognise the most successful partnership between a diverse range of organisations to deliver a recycling service, an investment, a research project or change which has brought about more packaging to be recycled. 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 sector or a multi partner project which has shown a commitment to change, improvement and a desire to reduce the duplication of effort and drive more packaging from the waste stream. This can also include work done for the implementation of the WEEE regulations and work with Local Authorities on CA sites, and possibly a retailer also.
open to: all

This award will recognise the Local Authority that has been most innovative in a project, relating to the packaging or WEEE regulations. The successful project can have been achieved by a variety of methods including kerbside collections, bring banks and household / Civic Amenities waste sites.
open to: Local Authorities

open to: all

open to: all

This award will recognise partnerships between Local Authorities, producer compliance schemes, the community sector, retailers, service providers (contractors and AATFs) and others to deliver WEEE collection services. Entries should consider training programmes, public awareness campaigns, treatment processes, job creation, reuse and other benefits of the WEEE partnership.
open to: Local Authorities, WEEE producer schemes, community businesses, reuse businesses, AATFs and collection contractors

open to: all

This award is to 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 Valpak members 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 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

This award is open to the next generation of recyclers and business people who will take 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