East Sussex County Council is one of the top winners in this year’s green apple awards, reaping a windfall of five Green Apple Awards for its work encouraging recycling and waste-reduction.
The final green apple was announced as part of the international award ceremony at the House of Commons on Monday 20 November. Earlier this month, the County Council received four awards at a prize-giving ceremony at the Tower of London.
The green apples were awarded at the following levels:
- a Silver International apple for working on waste management issues with our partners, Smedar council in Rouen, northern France
- a Gold apple with Veolia Environmental Services for improving household waste recycling sites and increasing recycling rates,
a Gold apple with Brighton & Hove Council for producing advice on recycling construction and demolition waste
- a Silver apple for campaigning to promote ‘real’ nappies which can be reused rather than disposable nappies which are thrown away
- a Bronze apple for campaigning to encourage home composting which means less organic waste goes to landfill.
This grand total of five is the greatest number of green apples the County Council has plucked so far. The County Council has been nomintaed for the previous four years and received three awards in total.
Notes to editors
The Green Apple Awards are part of an international campaign to find the greenest companies, councils, communities and countries. They are in their twelfth successful year, well established as the biggest and most extensive scheme of its kind in the country.
The campaign is run by The Green Organisation; an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environmental group dedicated to recognising, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world.
It is supported by the Environment Agency, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management, Municipal Journal and various other professional bodies and organisations.
Veolia Environmental Services in East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
Veolia Environmental Services (formerly Onyx) has a 25 year contract for the delivery of an integrated waste management service across East Sussex and Brighton & Hove. Working in partnership with both East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council, it is committed to providing a sustainable approach to managing the area’s household waste. Providing this service requires the operation, development and construction of a network of strategically placed facilities, designed to increase recycling, composting and recovery and to reduce dependence on scarce local landfill.
Under its contract Veolia Environmental Services is not responsible for the household collection of waste or recyclables. This remains the responsibility of Brighton & Hove City Council and the five District and Borough councils within East Sussex.
The Interreg Project
East Sussex County Council and Smedar, a local authority responsible for treating the waste of 160 parishes totalling 600 000 residents in the Rouen region, have been working together over the last year on joint project part financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
The project aims to identify some of the issues and problems created by the increasing volume of waste produced in both East Sussex and Rouen and to provide solutions that will lessen the impact on the environment.
For more information visit our Interreg IIIIA pages or the Smedar website (in French).
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