Printing Waste Specialist Takes Recycling Award
Monday 10th November 2008
A company specialising in the recycling of printers' waste has won a top environmental award.
Blandford-based J&G Environmental, which handles the collection and recycling of waste from over 2000 UK printing companies and newspaper groups, has been named winner of this year's Recycling Performance of the Year Award given by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).
J&G's triumph was announced at the CIWM's annual presentation of Environmental Excellence Awards at London's Dorchester Hotel when the company beat off strong competition from The Eden Project, the Metropolitan Police Service and the Ministry of Defence base at St.Athan.
The awards recognise and reward companies in the waste and resource industries that have successfully introduced measures to reduce their environmental impact.
The award judges said the print industry produced around 150 different waste streams. They praised J&G, which recently became part of the Cleansing Service Group of companies, for its "remarkable degree of success" in finding comprehensive solutions to all of the industry's waste issues.
J&G now recycles around 90 per cent of the waste it collects and believes the industry can eventually achieve a 'zero waste to landfill' record by identifying new recycling opportunities and commercially-viable creative uses for discarded raw materials.
