Haul of Awards Launches Our 10th Anniversary Year
ScotAsh has scooped two more awards in the first three months of its 10th anniversary year. Following last year's success in winning a Queen's Award and a national VIBES Award - each for the second time - the company received an award for Innovation in the inaugural Green Business Fife Awards.
Top marks: Peter Quinn (centre) with Jonathon Porritt (left) and John Muir, of Muir Construction
Managing Director Peter Quinn collected the award from Jonathon Porritt, eminent environmental adviser and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, and John Muir, chairman of Muir Construction, at the Fairmont St Andrews Hotel on 20th March.
Green Business Fife aims to help local businesses achieve resource efficiency gains that will boost their competitiveness and minimise their environmental impact.
In turn, it believes that sustainable development will stimulate new business opportunities in the emerging environmental industries sector.
Launched by Fife Council in 2007, Green Business Fife is supported by a range of agencies, including Scottish Enterprise, Business Gateway, Business Environment Partnership, Energy Saving Trust, Envirowise, SEPA, NISP, WRAP and the Carbon Trust.
Councillor Tony Martin, Chairman of Fife Council's Enterprise and Transportation Committee, said the awards represented the "very significant commitment made by companies to put Fife on the map as a place to do business in a sustainable and competitive way".
Dr Nigel Holmes, Director for NISP Scotland (National Industrial Symbiosis Programme) suggested that the Green Business Fife network should be replicated throughout Scotland.
He said: "Green Business Fife has really set the standard of how many different organisations, with different experiences and expertise, can work together successfully to support local projects with clear and common goals."
ScotAsh MD Peter Quinn said: "Green Business Fife provides companies with an excellent network through which people can inspire and help each other towards sustainability. "We were particularly pleased to achieve recognition with a local award."
ScotAsh also achieved its third
successive Gold Award from the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Accidents
(RoSPA) for health and safety
performance.
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