The Recycle for Wales website, a consumer-facing campaign site that encourages people in Wales to recycle, has been nominated for the Website of the Year award for 2014.
Run by Opinion Bar, Metrix Lab, and Cloud VPS, the award is decided by public vote and is given annually to nominated websites in a range of categories.
The competition has 19 categories, including: Career & Education; Charity; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Goods; Shopping; and Utility.
Recycle for Wales has been nominated for the award under the Charity category of Website for the Year. Other nominations for the category include: Macmillan Cancer Support; Oxfam; and the British Red Cross.
How it works
The voting process opened on Monday (22 September), and members of the public are now being asked to rate the sites nominated based on design, content, and navigation. Those voting could also be in the change of winning prizes, which this year include an Apple MacBook Air, two GoPro HD HERO3+ Silver Edition cameras, and five Jawbone UP24 devices.
Each category has two winners, but the website that has the highest quality score will win the award for Best Website, while the site with the highest number of votes will win the award for Most Popular Website.
The website with the best relative assessment within their category will be the overall winner of the Website of the Year award.
Recycle for Wales
The recycle for Wales website utilises a combination of illustration and information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle waste and save money.
Visitors to the site can:
- explore a page which features an interactive widget that aims to increase recycling in every room of the home;
- take an interactive quiz and test recycling knowledge;
- find advice on how to start recycling in local areas; and
- view animation videos and find out what happens to waste.
Dan Finch, National Campaigns Manager for Recycle for Wales, commented: “We’re privileged to have been nominated along with some of the best websites in the UK.
“We’ve worked hard over the last year to make our website the best that it can be and this nomination is vindication of this. We couldn’t have done it without the support from our users and we thank everyone for visiting and encourage you all to vote!”
Votes will be counted up to and including 31 October.
Learn more about and vote for Recycle for Wales for Website of the Year.
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