The winners demonstrated excellence in environmental practice across the private, public and voluntary sectors.
Award winners were selected across six categories including Carbon Reduction Initiative, Waste Management Initiative, Lean Manufacturing, Green Voluntary and Community Sector Organisation, Green Public Sector Organisation and Green Business in the Service Sector.
A.A. Security Limited were a close runner-up in the waste management category and were awarded a certificate and trophy in a hotly and closely contested competition. Director Wilson Chowdhry commented;
"We are fairly unique in our industry bearing our stronger than normal commitment to preserving our environment. We feel it is important that modern commercial entities working within our sector adopt such practices as news of depleting resources is effecting the global economy. We hope our success will inspire others to follow suit."
The awards were organised by environmental business experts at Middlesex University, who are currently managing the EcoVate Project, which provides free tailor-made environmental support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in London, and is part-financed by the European Union. Through EcoVate SMEs can receive advice on issues including waste, water, energy, transport, and supply chain linkages. Since the beginning of the project in April 2009 more than 350 businesses have been supported by EcoVate to become more sustainable, achieve cost savings and comply with changes in legislation.
Ankit Kapasi, from Middlesex University, said: “The huge success of the first ever GBI awards in June 2010 encouraged us to expand our scopes and boundaries this year. The standard and number of entries this year was very high, which was particularly great to see in the current challenging climate. All the organisations that entered have been working very hard to make themselves more sustainable and I want to congratulate the winners for leading the way in environmental practice.”
The judging panel was made up of representatives from the Environment Agency, London Borough of Camden, Waste Watch, Enterprise Enfield, AEA Consulting and Middlesex University. Nuno Costa, a Sustainable Development Specialist from IKEA, also spoke at the awards ceremony. Nuno was particularly impressed with the GBI 2011 trophies, that had been designed and hand-made with more than 99 percent recycled materials, and offered the trophy designer the use of IKEA's 'waste streams' to develop other products.
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