Entries should comprise a summary of the project (500-750 words) with supporting material, e.g., photos, press articles. Entries should be based on the period January-December 2008 although relevant material can be submitted for work prior to 2008 and from 2009 to show that successes are continuing. To read the rules for your nomination please click here

• Valpak Award for excellence - an individual recognition award
• Best Investment of PRN Funds
• Best Partnership
• recycle-more Award - Most Innovative Local Authority
• Best Educational School's Campaign
• Best Community Recycling Initiative
• Best Resource Management Programme
• Young Person's Environmental Innovation Award

This award will recognise the best reinvestment of PRN funds into the reprocessing system to facilitate the removal of packaging from the waste stream. This can include:

• increases in capacity and infrastructure
• enhancement of capacity
• product development
• price support
• partnership working with Local Authority

This award will recognise partnerships between Local Authorities, producer compliance schemes, the community sector, retailers, service providers (contractors and AATFs) and others to provide a recycling or WEEE collection service, an investment, a research project or a change which has increased packaging or WEEE recycling rates. It can be a partnership between a reprocessor and a number of Local Authorities, a market development programme which has brought together the public, private and community sectors, or a multi-partner project which has shown a commitment to change and improvement, and a desire to reduce the duplication of effort and drive more packaging or WEEE from the waste stream. This can also include work with Local Authorities on Civic Amenity sites and retailer take-back initiatives. Entries should consider training programmes, public awareness campaigns, treatment processes, job creation, reuse and other benefits of the WEEE or packaging partnership.

Open to: All

This award will recognise the Local Authority that has shown innovation through a project relating to the packaging or WEEE regulations. The project can have been achieved through a variety of methods including kerbside collections, bring banks and household / Civic Amenity waste sites.

This award will recognise an organisation that has implemented an innovative recycling campaign which promotes awareness in local schools.

Open to: All

This award will commend an organisation that has implemented an initiative which demonstrates a beneficial commitment to educating and promoting the importance of recycling within the local community.

Open to: All

This award is to recognise the move towards resource management and the carbon agenda. The private sector has been challenged to reduce its impact on the environment and this award will recognise the efforts of Valpak members in taking up the challenge. Entrants should detail the steps they went through to assess their impact in the first instance, and then describe the policies and actions they put in place to start to reduce their impact. The entry should also detail successes and measured results of their actions.

Open to: All

This award is open to the next generation of recyclers and business people who have taken on the challenge of resource management. Valpak is looking to identify young individuals who have shown innovation, commitment and drive in the field of recycling and resource management. They may have designed a new product, set up a new business venture or have outstanding ideas to reduce, reuse and recycle waste materials.

Open to: persons aged 21 and under