The Global Recycling Foundation is calling for nominations for the award of Recycling Hero 2021 from individuals to business leaders, sole traders to multinational businesses, communities, towns and cities that have continued to recycle actively during the Covid-19 crisis.
All entrants will have a chance to win a $500 prize and the winners will feature on the Global Recycling Day social media channels. Ten recycling heroes representing the various continents of the world will be chosen as the winners.
Ranjit Baxi, founding president of the Global Recycling Foundation, said: “We want to champion Recycling Heroes during a particularly difficult year, and encourage the world to recognize the critical importance that recycling makes to the preservation of our planet.
“Every year on Global Recycling Day we applaud the innovative recycling practices of our heroes and report what they have achieved to our millions of supporters around the world.”
The awards competition will be launched via social media early next week and Global Recycling Foundation will shortly announce details about how to nominate your #RecyclingHeroes 2021.
Global Recyling Day
Global Recycling Day is an initiative of the Global Recycling Foundation movement dedicated to recognising the importance of recycling as a resource, not waste. 2021 will be the fourth year in which the event takes place.
Last year, an event in parliament had been planned to mark the occasion but had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic (see letsrecycle.com story).
In 2019, the day’s ‘flagship event’ took place in central London, where a kiosk was set up on Carnaby Street to raise awareness about recycling (see letsrecycle.com story).
The event sits alongside resources charity WRAP’s Recycle Week, which normally takes place in September, in the waste management sector’s calendar.
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