Cheshire-based bring bank services provider, Palm Recycling, has announced that it will sponsor the 2013 Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) Conference and Celebration Awards for the second year running.
The annual recycling and waste management event, which will take place on 16-17 October at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham, ‘recognises the hard work, dedication and achievements of local authority recycling officers, their teams and partners within the UK’. The shortlisted entries for its annual Celebration Awards were announced last week.
As well as the awards ceremony, the event will also involve conference seminars, debates, training sessions and stand exhibitors, and is a meeting place for local authorities and LARAC’s partners.
Palm Recycling will be exhibiting at a stand, showcasing its recycling programmes that are ‘tailored to meet individual local authority needs and ever restrictive budgets’.
In particular, Palm Recycling will be demonstrating its nationwide contract with retailer Sainsbury’s. Launched last year, Palm continues to roll out the bring bank recycling centres it has developed in partnership with Sainsbury’s, which aim to ‘enhance recycling rates’ and ‘reduce local authority costs’.
According to Palm, the front-of-store orange bank sites for mixed paper and card, mixed glass, mixed plastics, mixed cans, textiles, and small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), are now in operation at over 100 stores, with a further 200 to be created over the next 12-18 months.
Mandy Kelly, Business Development Director at Palm Recycling, said: “Our Sainsbury’s bring bank scheme illustrates how local authorities can work successfully with retailers to achieve increased recycling rates and higher levels of material quality – coupled with cost efficiencies and a hassle-free operation.
"Because we worked in partnership with Sainsbury’s from the outset, together we devised a comprehensive store recycling solution that engages with the public making recycling part of the weekly shop. Based on the scheme’s new standardised offering, consistency, simplicity, ease of use and a much enhanced appearance, it has continued to receive positive customer feedback, increased tonnage rates for a wide range of separated materials and of course, improved material quality.”
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