Valpak - awards ceremon7 2009 entries

Award for Excellence in Enforcing the Regulations
- an individual recognition award

Open to : Valpak decision

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)

Best partnership

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 a 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 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 from the waste stream. This can also include work done for the implementation of the WEEE regulations and work with Local Authorities on Civic Amenity sites, and retailer take-back initiatives.

Open to: All

recycle-more Award for the Most Innovative Local Authority

This award will recognise the Local Authority that has been the 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 Amenity waste sites.

Open to: Local Authorities

Best Local Authority Employee

This award will recognise the efforts of an individual in local government. This could be a recycling officer, a member of a collection crew, a site attendant or education officer… someone who through their individual effort and drive has made a difference.

Open to: Local Authorities

Best Educational Project

This award will be presented to the individual, company or organisation which has demonstrated a consistent and beneficial commitment to educating and promoting the importance of recycling, whether at school, at work or in the local community.

Open to: all

Best Business to Business WEEE Service

This award will recognise the most innovative and effective service for providing collection services for B2B WEEE clients. As part of the WEEE regulations, businesses who supply WEEE to business users should put in place plans and operations to recover old WEEE. Entries should detail the steps they have taken and highlight what makes the plans different; details of partnerships, specialist equipment, unique service offers and customer testimonials should be included where possible.

Open to: all business obligated as business to business WEEE suppliers

Best WEEE Partnership

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

Best Resource Management Project

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: Valpak members

Young Persons Environmental Innovation Award

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