Award winning waste management programmes which were fine-tuned at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke are serving as a template for other businesses across the UK.
The shopping centre has won a green industry award for the second year running based on its advanced waste management system. Run by Colliers International, the programme is designed to reduce the amount of rubbish taken to landfill to zero.
Mike Bull from Colliers International’s Investment Property Management team said lessons learnt at Bradley Stoke had now been rolled out across the country, along with a programme to shift the company’s national portfolio of managed properties onto Green Energy at no cost – the second phase of which will commence in September 2014.
He said: “The award of Green Capital of Europe 2015 reinforces Bristol status as a local and business community that is fully engaged with sustainability issues.
“There is always more to be done but we’ve made real progress in the past 12 months reducing the impact of the buildings we manage on the environment, as well as addressing the broader longer term issues around sustainability.”
The Willow Brook team won the energy management category of the Sceptre Awards after cutting carbon output by 80 tonnes.
Mike Bull said: “We’re not simply ‘talking’ about sustainability, or applying it to ‘flagship’ buildings, but introducing measures across our entire managed portfolio which really make a difference in terms of waste management, energy efficiency, running costs and carbon footprints.
“This reflects our ethos of delivering measurable results that are demonstrably making the difference to our clients, their tenants and the environment.”
