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The award
The Business Action Sustainable Business Award seeks to recognise businesses and organisations based or operating in and near North Devon who are committed to promoting and achieving sustainability.
Finalists
The finalists in the Sustainable Business Award 2025 are:
- Additive Catchments
- Harvest Green Developments
- Victoria Wiltshire Hair
- Ostlers Cider Mill
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Coastal Recycling
Coastal Recycling lead the way in waste recycling and recovery, managing both large-scale public sector contracts, alongside our management solutions for a diverse portfolio of business clients. Based in Torrington (and Exeter) we are the only provider of recycling services who genuinely offer an end-to-end service where we collect, separate, recycle and manage waste materials at our own sites throughout Devon.
Our commercial waste services include skips, wheelie bins collections, green waste, hazardous waste and confidential shredding. We are proud to service over 1695 clients in the region, working with them all to increase their recycling rates and help achieve their net zero goals for waste.
Coastal Recycling is a fully independent, complete waste management and recycling business and is also proud to be 100% employee owned.
Employee ownership gives our customers the peace of mind to know we will never be sold to one of the big national waste providers whilst allowing us to provide good old-fashioned customer service locally to our customers. Coastal not only cares deeply about our employees and customers, but also our community. We always stay true to our roots – looking after the businesses, large and small, that form the lifeblood of Devon.
Our genuine care for people and our planet has helped us to win five awards over two years, including Sustainable Business and North Devon Business of the Year 2024.
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Criteria
To support its aims, the Sustainable Business Award is open to businesses demonstrating one or more of the activities below.
The judges are looking for evidence of at least one of the criteria below. You don’t have to meet all – just use them as a guide for your entry – what’s most important is for you to tell your story:
- practise or support landscape / wildlife conservation
- how they reduce waste and recycle
- reduce energy or use renewable energy
- repurpose recycled or recovered materials for their products and services
- practise ecotourism
- promote local knowledge and cultural heritage to residents and tourists
Whatever sustainable practices your business or organisation undertakes, enter the Sustainable Business Award to receive the recognition you deserve.
Who can enter?
The Sustainable Business Award is open to any business based or operating in or near North Devon.
Owners, directors, managers and employees can enter the business they work in and businesses can also be entered by customers, suppliers or external advisers.
Category rules for entry
Please follow the category rules below, which also include useful suggestions on how to ensure your entry showcases achievements in the best possible light.
- You can enter your own business, nominate your employer or nominate another business for this award.
- This award is for any business in or near North Devon.
- Ensure you read the awards terms and conditions.
- Read the criteria and the questions on the form below in advance so that you understand what the judges are looking for and tailor your answers to these.
- There is no restriction on how much information you can provide in your answers, although please ensure that anything you say is relevant to this award. The questions are deliberately open to enable you to submit the best possible entry and the examples given are purely illustrative. Add any other information you feel is important to highlight success.
- Provide as much detail and evidence as possible to back up your claims, including relevant links to web sites or videos.
- Write and save your answers in a note-making or word-processing app first and copy them into the form below. This ensures you do not lose anything you have taken a long time to write.
- Attach any files, eg customer compliments or images of products, to support your entry.
- The closing date for entries is 23:59 on Monday 3 March 2025.
