The recycling service that we deliver at the University has been recognised nationally in the letsrecycle.com awards for excellence in Waste Management.

We received notification that we were in the running for an award and so a team from the University went down to London to in the hope that we might win!

The Estates Support Services, waste management infrastructure is delivered by over 350 people at the University. All of us could not go down so we had a prize draw to see who would go on the trip. The lucky winners were Muriel, Surinda, Trevor and Jason.

We had a great trip down on the train and did a brief bit of sightseeing before having a champagne reception and then taking lunch at the Landmark Hotel.

Trevor and Jason were representing the porting team. With Muriel and Surinda Sekon represented the cleaning teams and Rob Walton of GPS represented the Environmental Coordinators. And i went along… just to make sure no one got into any trouble on the mean streets of London City.

We were in the category for Commercial Recycling Champion. Unfortunately we did not get the overall winner but came a very respectable runners up. Shirley Kidd, BP North Sea HQ got the overall winner… so well done to Shirley!

We met a lot of people from the waste industry and had some drinks afterwards before making the journey home. A great day out was had by all….the streets were not paved with Gold though!