The Green Apple Awards don’t just celebrate sustainability. They also provide companies with ideas that can form a sustainable, successful waste management blueprint.

1. Celebrating
Sustainable Waste
Management
with the Green
Apple Awards

2. What can you learn
from the Green Apple
Award winners?

3. Launched in 1994,
the Green Apple
Awards recognise,
reward and promote
sustainability and
environmental best
practice.
Some of the winners
have useful lessons
for the rest of us.

4. North Midland
Construction innovate
to regenerate

5. North Midland
Construction PLC
was recognised for
their regeneration
efforts in Sheffield.

6. Reusing construction waste
during the construction of the
green parkway reduced overall
waste and kept transport
costs and emissions down.

7. Kier Mining puts the
weather to work

8. What better way
to reduce your
environmental impact
than by making use of
what the environment
provides?

9. Keir Mining claimed their award
for saving five million litres
of potable water by using
collected rainwater during their
construction project in Ayrshire.
5
MILLION
LITRES

10. BAM Nuttall looks to
waste management

11. For a long time,
Reconomy has
championed the
benefits of robust
waste management
practices. The Green
Apple Awards agree.

12. Winners BAM Nuttall put
their award recognition
down to accurate
environmental reporting,
greater compliance
with waste targets,
and a robust waste
management plan.

13. Mill Gate customers
buy into recycling

14. Sometimes
sustainability is as
simple as making
recycling easier.

15. By convincing
shoppers to aid their
recycling efforts, Mill
Gate Shopping Centre
saved 130,000kg of
carbon, and netted an
award along the way.
130,000KG OF
CARBON

16. Claridges apply waste
management to the
hotel sector

17. Waste
management
isn’t solely a
construction
consideration.

18. Claridges applied construction-
style waste separation and
sorting techniques to recycle
food, paper and packaging
waste, and were duly rewarded.

19. CSJV reduce the
impact of their plant
emissions

20. Not every company
can replace
plant machinery
with greener
alternatives. But
a commitment to
better filters landed
CSJV an award.

21. What can you do?

22. All of the winners
have one thing in
common – commitment
to finding a solution
with expert help.

23. Is it time for
you to find
an expert?

24. Demonstrating your sustainable
credentials could be your ticket to more
business and a shiny Green Apple for
your shelf, but it’s not something you
need to do alone.
As Claridges and CSJV demonstrate,
expert assistance can help you take
huge strides towards your waste
management goals, which will in turn
help to put you on the radar of the
awards committee.

25. So if you want to take strides
towards recognition for your
green efforts, take inspiration
from the actions of the
winners above.
Find and partner with a waste
management specialist. Even
if it doesn’t deliver an award,
it’ll certainly deliver savings
and sustainability for your
business.

26. Takeaways
Sustainability is a
key consideration for
customers. You need
to demonstrate your
green credentials.
Even if you don’t
win an award, you
can save serious
amounts of money
by reusing materials
on site.
Convincing
customers or
partners to buy into
your environmental
efforts is key if
you want to make
big strides in
sustainability.
Nothing beats
forward planning.
Implementing a solid
waste management
plan is key.
Not even award
winners can do it
alone. Many Green
Apple winners
sought help from
experts in the waste
management field.

27. Do you want to implement an award winning
sustainability plan? You should start here.
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