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PRESS RELEASE: Global Recycling Foundation announces Recycling Heroes & Young Green Ambassadors awards of Global Recycling Day 2024
London, March 18, 2023 Immediate release – The Global Recycling Foundation today announces the ten winners of their Recycling Heroes 2024 award along with five special awards for Young Green Ambassadors marking the seventh Global Recycling Day on 18th March.
Ten winners of US$1000 each and five special awards of US$250 recognising Young Green Ambassadors are selected from nominations received from individuals , business leaders, sole traders, multinationals and Schools who despite continuing hardships have managed to sustain their efforts to promote the value of recycling.
Ranjit Baxi, Founding President of the Global Recycling Foundation, said: “This year’s list of Recycling Heroes should be a cause for celebration. Not only does it demonstrate the enthusiasm and ingenuity of our winners, but the special category of Young Green Ambassadors introduced to acknowledge the initiatives of many schools, demonstrates that our young people today, who are the leaders of tomorrow, are showcasing the way forward and recognising the importance of recycling to protect our fragile planet.”
Recycling Heroes – The winners:
Abiona Toluwalase of Lagos, Nigeria is a dedicated environmentalist and founder of the Zero Plastic Straw Community, an initiative aimed at combating plastic pollution and promoting sustainable living practices. Since its inception in October 2021, the Zero Plastic Straw Community has made significant strides in reducing plastic waste by providing 6 recycling giant bins, promoting and donating 50 eco-friendly alternatives to plastic straws among school students and local communities. Through educational campaigns, clean-ups, and advocacy efforts, Toluwalase has engaged over 5,000 individuals in recycling practices and the fight against plastic pollution
Dipesh Pabari leads The Flipflopi Project, Lamu Archipelago, Kenya, which has pioneered an innovative model for sustainable plastic waste management in the region with a replicable circular economy approach for small island and peri-urban communities. Dipesh is a clear leader – smart, determined and passionate about a waste-free future. He has pioneered an innovative model for sustainable plastic waste management in the region with a replicable circular economy approach for small island and peri-urban communities.
David Katz, founder and CEO of Plastic Bank, Vancouver, Canada – an internationally recognized solution to ocean plastic. His idea has enlivened an opportunity for the world to collect and exchange plastic as a currency. Today, his social enterprise is a global network of over 550 collection communities with more than 40,000 members. David champions sustainability with social recycling.
Mike Mackay, MD, DESPRAY Environmental, Netherlands is the World’s leading expert in Aerosol Recycling technology. DESPRAY have advanced aerosol recycling having recycled over 560 million cans to date. We stand alone as the World’s safest and most advanced aerosol recycling technology. DESPRAY can capture 100% of the propellant GHG along with the liquid waste which are both used for waste to energy. What remains is a dense brick of metal that is 100% recycled.
Soap Aid Ltd – Melbourne, Australia was founded in 2011 in and has a unique dual mission: to save children’s lives while diverting hard soap waste from landfills, thereby contributing to environmental conservation. Soap Aid has recycled over 3 million bars through the Soap Aid Hotel to Hands Programme – Equivalent to 300 tons of waste that was recycled and did not end up in landfills. Also over 1 million bars of soap distributed to indigenous communities in Australia, preventing thousands of children from contracting diseases such as trachoma and pneumonia.
Rahmanullah Shirzad, Afghanistan is an Advocate for the integration of climate change considerations into national and local policies, promoting sustainable development practices in Afghanistan and seeks to provide training and resources to equip individuals and organizations with the skills and knowledge needed to implement climate-friendly practices.
Hellena Sailas, CEO of Arena Recycling Tanzania, Hellena’s efforts have led to the establishment of plastic waste collection centres, beach clean-ups, and the construction of sanitation facilities using eco-bricks in primary schools, benefiting thousands of individuals and communities. Her commitment to creating a positive impact on the environment and the community is evident by the numerous initiatives and projects undertaken.
Green Women Compost Production Company, Tamil Nadu, India Green Women Compost Production Company has been a graduation for a handful of Self Help Group women members who had taken the task of working in the Solid Waste Management site of the Government local body who aspired to upscale this activity to a Social Enterprise Business model by not only upscaling the recycling of solid waste but also the liquid waste for the production of Co-compost on a commercial scale. We have also upscaled our institution from a Self Help Group to a Green Women Compost Production Pvt. Ltd. Company.
Jessica Alexanderson, Seattle USA, President Scrap University Kids is not only on a long-standing ocean-waste recycling mission, she is creating a youth movement through educating schools about metal recycling with her Scrap University Kids series of books and initiatives. She’s on the road to mobilising US schools to recycle over One million Cans, and that is just the start.
Nicola Jones, South Wales, UK has worked in the steel industry in UK for 25 years and nearly all of that time dedicated her career to the recycling of steel packaging. Nicola is also heavily involved in linking the process of recycling at home to the physical melting down of the packaging that the steel mill recycles into the furnaces in Port Talbot. She has used her expertise to shape policy & regulation throughout the UK and is a member of many advisory & strategic working groups. Nicola developed the education program for Tata Steel that delivers workshops to schools, colleges and universities.
Young Green Ambassadors – special category
Henry Green Primary School, Dagenham, London, UK for sustainability work in school led by Pupils in the Green team. We have been driven over the past two years to make change, raise awareness and reduce waste in our community. The Green Team have promoted reuse drives for books and clothing, raising funds for Cancer research by collecting over 3300 used batteries for recycling and cleaning drives by plogging.
Otilo Foundation, Nigeria has significantly reduced carbon emissions by recycling approximately 65,000 metric kilograms of cartons and plastic waste from November 2023 to February 2024. This effort saves approximately 97,500 metric kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions, contributing to environmental sustainability and waste reduction initiatives.
Lianae Petzer, Kabega Primary School, Gqeberha, South Africa has been an active recycling ambassador since she was in Grade 1 in 2018. She would collect recycling and bring it to school as part of the recycling initiatives which Kabega Primary has in place at the school. She would set the trend for her fellow learners to follow by her continued recycling which she collects from family, friends and the surrounding community.
Sainath Manikandan and Sai Sahana Manikandan, Abu Dhabi, UAE are students of GEMS United Indian School, Abu Dhabi, UAE in Grade 10 & 8 respectively. Sainath and his sister Sai Sahana Manikandan have started their own campaign, PEPC Campaign with the main aim to reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, rethink and refuse. They are collecting Papers, E-wastes, Plastics and Cans for recycling. As an environmentalist and green activist, they strongly believe that we can change our existing practices into green and sustainable solutions using technology.
Ege Topkoc, Dubai, UAE, an 18-year-old senior at the American School of Dubai, UAE. He released a free game on the App Store called “Recycling Toss.” It’s a fun and educational game that teaches young kids about recycling. He piloted the game with 5th grade students, which saw a 68.7% improvement in their recycling knowledge.
For further information contact Global Recycling Foundation team:
info@globalrecyclingfoundation.com
Ranjit Baxi +447860525159 www.globalrecyclingday.com
About the Global Recycling Foundation
The Global Recycling Foundation supports the promotion of recycling, and the recycling industry, across the world to showcase its vital role in preserving the future of the planet. It will promote Global Recycling Day as well as other educational programmes, awareness projects and innovation initiatives which focus on the sustainable and inclusive development of recycling.
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We would be happy to tell you more during the IFAT fair in Munich 2024.
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Booth number B4.305/404
See you in Munich!
In the current circular economy, we want to reuse residual materials as much as possible instead of exhausting finite stocks of raw materials. We want to reuse, refurbish and recycle existing materials and products for as long as possible. In this economic and industrial system, it is increasingly important to consider sustainable options. Visit the world’s leading trade fair and step into the future at IFAT Munich. Find the solutions of the future here, such as the DESPRAY recycling system.
IFAT Munich welcomes you to the future
IFAT is the trade fair for environmental technologies with participants from all over the world. If you’re looking for solutions to future challenges, you may find answers at this leading trade show. As the largest platform for water, sewage, waste and resource management, IFAT brings industry from around the world together for the future. Find efficient solutions for the use of water, secondary raw materials and recycling at this fair. IFAT participants
DESPRAY recycling system
DESPRAY Environmental is part of the Osse Equipment Manufacturing Group and has marketed a fully self-developed recycling system. DESPRAY’s system allows 100% of aerosols to be recycled safely and profitably. This provides benefits for the environment and for the user of DESPRAY. DESPRAY’s patented aerosol recycling technology enables manufacturers, recycling facilities and municipal waste management sites, for example, to recycle aerosols and recover 100% of their liquid, gas and metal contents in a way that is not only safe and sustainable, but also profitable again.
Visit DESPRAY in Munich
The developments of DESPRAY do not stand still. Because more and more waste is being recycled, DESPRAY cannot help but develop and we try to prepare ourselves as well as possible for possible trends, problems and solutions. Not only can aerosols be recycled in the future, but gases that come out of the installation can also be cleaned, for example.
We would be happy to tell you more during the IFAT fair in Munich 2022.
See you in Munich!