Global Recycling Foundation Announces Chelmsford College as 2025 Recycling Hero Winner!
The Global Recycling Foundation (GRF) has announced the winners of its Recycling Heroes Competition 2025. Entrants were invited to submit a 60-90 second video demonstrating innovative ideas to promote Recycling, Sustainability, Educational Awareness or Waste Reduction in their Community, School or business. Impressively, among 19 other global winners, Chelmsford College has been announced as a winner with their nomination video below.
Videos were judged on creativity and clarity of message illustrating success stories and educational outreach. The 20 winning entries have won $500 plus inclusion in a press release shared through our global channels. Additionally, the first 50 winning entries will be shared on all their global channels over the following 12 months.
As the video nomination depicts, this award highlights Chelmsford College’s dedication to pioneering a greener future. With a commitment to reaching net zero by 2040, they run various recycling initiatives to help achieve this, including The Pringles Tube Recycling Programme, collecting, and recycling many other items, including plastic tubs, magazines, newspapers, and wood offcuts, as well as creating their own app, Nexus, designed to lead a greener community. The College also makes use of recycling bins and boasts an onsite Renewable Sustainable Shop free for all staff and learners to use!
Marking Global Recycling Day, Ranjit Baxi, Founding President of the GRF, said:
"On this Global Recycling Day let us all pledge to share and promote recycling as an integral part of the Global Circular Economy.
The danger is that the circular economy becomes regionalised by overarching regulatory controls and increasing protectionism, instead we must work together to allow free and fair global trade as we are contributing to global environmental benefits.
We need to promote the three Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle as our fundamental drivers. I am heartened by the number of entries in our Recycling Heroes competition which have focused on the use of plastic. They all recognise that we must eradicate single use plastic.
Recycling saves over a billion tons of Carbon Emissions each year and these savings need to be translated into easily tradeable Carbon or Plastic Credits. We need to agree on harmonised Carbon Credit methodologies that can be easily applied across all recyclables - Plastic, Paper, Metals, Tyres & Textiles.
It is high time that world leaders recognise recycling and place it high on the agenda at the COP30 in Brazil as part of Article 6 discussions."