B&M Waste Winners of CSR Award at the Echo Environment Awards
Press Release
Carbon neutral waste management company B&M Waste, won the CSR Award at lasts nights Echo Environment Awards. B&M Waste were also finalists for the Green Business of the Year and former Education Programme Leader Maria Williams, a finalist for the Environmental Champion.
In light of Covid restrictions on events and gatherings of people, this years’ event was hosted online with BBC North West Tonight’s Roger Johnson comparing the evening.
B&M Waste work in partnership with several charities across the UK, including with the national homelessness charity Crisis, with whom they received a ‘Highly Commended Award’ at the National recycling Awards 2019 for their Refuse not Refuge campaign which raises awareness of the dangers of sleeping in a bin. B&M Waste actively champion for all waste operatives across the UK to be trained to check each and every bin they empty for signs that someone may be sleeping in it. B&M Waste have also delivered informative sessions to local universities and colleges in the hopes of discouraging students from doing the same following a night out.
Last year, B&M Waste recruited an Education Programme Leader to lead the ‘Little Litter Pickers’ programme from the company’s own Recycling Education Centre on the Wirral. ‘Little Litter Pickers’ encourages children to understand ways to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, and the wider environmental impact our actions today will have for decades to come. Until Covid restrictions came into force March 2020, the programme was popular with local schools with hundreds of students taking part in environmental learning.
Speaking about the CSR Award, Neil Curtis, Managing Director at B&M Waste Services, said: “Winning this award in recognition of our CSR efforts is fantastic. We continuously strive to deliver the most sustainable solutions to our customers and communities whilst remaining supportive to our long-standing, local charities. I’m really pleased that the efforts of the wider B&M team that we have been recognised”
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About B&M Waste Services (www.bagnallandmorris.com)
Carbon Neutral B&M Waste Services Ltd, established in 1999, offer recycling-led waste management solutions to businesses across the UK. Family owned and managed, the company has seen significant growth and is now one of the larger waste companies in the UK. The company employ over 200 people and work with national large blue chip organisations right down to SME’s, and through their award-winning customer service, hi-tech solutions and ethos of recycling focus they continue to offer a top class service diverting 100% of waste from landfill in many cases. The focus is to work in partnership with customers to offer tailored solutions to waste management, to have minimal environmental impact and maximum cost-efficiencies.
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