Innovative Recyclers' Awards 2002
Household Category
WINNER - Judith Balchin
Judith and her family are well known locally to have the environmental footprint of a fairy. Judith is into reuse and recycling – paper making, soap production, pressed flowers, herbal products and composting/organics with a vengeance. She is very knowledgeable but always keen to learn further and share her skills with others far and wide. Innovation is very much evident in the reduction of the organic waste stream.
MERIT AWARD - Laura Atkins
Laura’s efforts in her home are many and varied and have infiltrated the homes of her extended family and their business. A splendid example of thorough, subtle and innovative influence in waste minimisation education. Laura introduced herself as "an environmentally aware citizen" of this city and signed herself off as "a devoted happy recycler" – that says it all.
Institutional Category
WINNER – Methodist Social Services
Overall the reuse of just about anything:
Waste not/want not – and the recycling of many things
Furniture / appliances / esp. clothing /operation of bins in town / recycling centres
Team of volunteers, some with 30 years service
Excess on sold to Wellington
Excellent local effort for local people
Innovation in the intensity and scale of the operation
Once see, never forgotten
Business Category
WINNER – Hacienda Motor Lodge
Debbie and Stuart took up the idea of waste minimisation and simply got brilliantly carried away – they went the full distance – nothing was left out – waste min. at its penetrating best!
Green Globe is coming Palmerston North – they won’t have much to do at the Hacienda.
This now sits alongside the Carramar Motor Inn & Restaurant. These are where our enviro-visitors insist on staying.
MERIT AWARD – Irelands Electrical
A first-class example of repair, reuse and recycling in industry. A very good effort is being made to seriously minimise waste. Almost everything, including motor vehicles have come under the spotlight for examination re wastage. The judges were impressed as to the innovative thoroughness of the operation. If every business in this town was this keen and clean about 40% of our waste stream would disappear. Very pleasing to see a prominent businessman and city councillor leading the way.
MERIT AWARD – Outer Limit Cycles
Jason & Adam run this business in a very small shop but they haven’t let the minimal space prevent them from minimising their waste-stream. They have got into both reuse and recycling and frankly have set an excellent example to the multitude of small businesses in the district, many of whom will say that they haven’t the room to recycle.
MERIT AWARD – Peppertree Hostel
This backpackers hostel chose to get serious about waste reduction some years back. Many of its clientele expect to have waste minimisation available to them – they have grown up in Western Europe.
The judges thought that they recycling of footwear was particularly innovative and inspiring – truly thinking outside the traditional “square”.
MERIT AWARD – Budget Plastics
David Ye is an outstanding example of a new citizen of this nation who has worked exceptionally hard under exceptional difficulties to establish a new business in a very competitive market, based in part on recycled materials, and who has gone to great lengths to source these materials and thus benefit considerably, the city’s wastestream.
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