Green Apple Award - Green Champion Award, Products Category 2006
Tina Pearce
Green Apple Award presentation.
[L to R] Mel Moore, Tina Pearce, Professor David Bellamy
Tina Pearce of Less Mess Limited, has won a prestigious Green Apple environment award. The awards are recognized as being one of the biggest environmental award schemes in the world.
Green Champion
In fact she won the Green Champion Award, Products Category 2006 the top prize in this category, and as such is acknowledged as one of the country's leaders in setting environmental standards for others to follow.
The Award was presented at the Tower of London on Friday, 3 November 2006 at a glittering prize-giving ceremony. Tina received her award from Professor David Bellamy, Britain's leading environmental personality.
Top Winner
Extract from the "North Devon Gazette" 29 November 2006:
NORTH Devon business Less Mess is among the top winners in this year's National Green Apple Environment Awards for its invention of the Fat Trap.
Tina Offield, who founded the Braunton business with partner Jamie Pearce, received the Green Champion Award the top prize in the products category at a ceremony at the Tower of London. It was presented by Professor David Bellamy, Britain's leading environmental personality.
She will be returning to the capital in the spring to be named a Green Hero in a ceremony in Kensington Gardens.
The Green Apple Award judges said:
"A blocked sink led to the creation of the Fat Trap by Less Mess, a half litre container that sits by the sink of many homes across the UK. Saving sink blockages, sewer blockages, and the resulting river pollution, it also can recycle the fat into bird food. The idea is now moving into Europe, possibly Canada and New Zealand too".
Tina said: "I was shocked when I was told at the awards ceremony that I was the overall winner of the product category. It is a real honour.
"We are now working on other exciting developments."
This was the 12th year of the Green Apple Awards, now established as one of the biggest environmental award schemes in the world.
Entries are invited from any council, company, community or country that is making an effort to protect or enhance the environment. This year [2006] there were almost 1,000 entries.
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Green Hero
As a Green Apple winner Tina has become a "Green Hero". Green Heroes are a select band of environmentalists who are willing to go the extra mile to help thousands of others to follow their ecological lead. Tina's award winning paper is published in the Green book, Volume 12 (extracted here).
The Green Book is a unique international work of reference and is an invaluable guide to environmental best practice and is distributed free of charge to environmental professionals around the world.
Green Apple Award Green Organisation website.
The organisers of the Green Apple Awards are the Green Organisation, which is an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognising, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world. It is funded by membership and sponsorship, with valuable support from the Environment Agency, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.
The event was also supported by Tree Appeal, who have pledged to plant trees in the names of all the winners to make the function carbon free.