Novelis celebrates the achievements of the community recycling sector in Scotland
Novelis Recycling, the world’s leading aluminium can recycler, has rewarded the forward-thinking activities of one of Scotland’s community recycling groups at the More Than Recycling Awards 2010.
Novelis Recycling, the world’s leading aluminium can recycler, has rewarded the forward-thinking activities of one of Scotland’s community recycling groups at the More Than Recycling Awards 2010, which took place in March in Edinburgh.
The event, which is now in its fifth year, is organised by the Community Recycling Network Scotland (CRNS) and sets out to recognise the undoubted achievements and on-going success of projects in the community recycling sector in Scotland. As well as the awards ceremony and dinner at the Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor, the CRNS delivered a full day of presentations, workshops and networking opportunities for the 172 delegates and exhibitors.
Novelis Recycling has supported the event since its inception and this year sponsored the Innovation Award, which rewarded ‘an organisation which has developed an innovative project, product, partnership, activity or service in the last 12 months’.
The winner on the night was Lorn & Oban Reuse Initiative Ltd (LORI), which has set up a reuse shop on a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) in Oban, in partnership with Argyll & Bute Council and Shanks Waste Management Ltd. The project collects and sells a wide range of products at the site and uses the income generated to provide low cost furniture to people moving out of homelessness and to provide employment and training opportunities for unemployed people.
The award was presented by Novelis Business Development Manager, Bob Meath, who said, ‘Novelis Recycling has worked closely with the community recycling sector in Scotland for many years. Community initiatives play a vital role in supporting the aluminium can recycling infrastructure and Novelis is delighted to recognise this contribution by sponsoring this award.’
‘The work being done in this sector in Scotland is impressive and LORI has shown that tackling a situation in a new and exceptional way can bring great results. The way the organisation has developed this partnership and the ‘buy in‘ it has achieved from other organisations is an example of what can be done to help disadvantaged groups in the local community while achieving impressive landfill diversion objectives.’
The award was accepted by Elizabeth Mullan, Development Office for LORI, who assured the judges and the audience that the £1,000 prize money would be well spent on developing the project further and building on its already impressive achievements.
