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PHS Group wins at National Recycling Awards

PHS Group has triumphed at the National Recycling Awards 2010 scooping the Best Partnership Project for Recycling. The award entry was managed, compiled and submitted by Geometry PR.

The awards, held at a glittering ceremony at London’s Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, Thursday 15th July, recognise and reward the efforts of public and private sector achievements in recycling and waste management.

The partnership of; Lime (part of PHS Group), Howard Smith Paper Group, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (a major international law firm) and Steinbeis Papier Gmbh (a european paper mill), secured the award for its success in delivering a ‘closed loop’ system for recycling. Used office paper from Freshfields is collected, shredded and bailed by Lime, before being processed at the Steinbeis mill and returned to provide new ‘Yoyo’ branded office paper for the law firm. Howard Smith Paper Group organises the paper supply and transportation.

It has long been considered that a closed loop system would not be able to deliver cost effective recycled paper of a high enough quality to make it a serious alternative to new paper. However, the partnership has succeeded spectacularly and lawyers, staff and print experts within the law firm not only accept that the Yoyo paper performs well, but actively choose it as an option.

Such is the success of the scheme that in 2009, 325 tonnes of paper from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP were shredded and recycled, 5,514 trees were saved as a direct result of this initiative, on top of which, 729m3 of waste to land fill was avoided. More than half of the paper used by the firm’s 2,500 partners and staff in its London office is now Yoyo brand recycled paper.

Speaking about the success, Linda Donaldson of Geometry PR said; “Awards are of great value. They help to validate the efforts of businesses and organisations and serve to highlight their professionalism. This award is recognition of the efforts of all parties within the partnership and staff at each of the companies involved should be proud of their achievements.

“PHS is a huge company and our relationship with the company is developing well. We are pleased that we were able to help deliver this award.”

External links related to this article:
Click here to visit the National Recycling Awards
Click here to visit PHS Datashred
Click here to visit the Yoyo Paper website

Date Posted: 7/19/2010 1:12:33 PM