Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation Opens Nominations for 2025 Recycling Champions Awards

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): The Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation (FRPF) is now accepting nominations for its 2025 Recycling Champions Awards. These awards recognize companies, organizations, governmental entities, and individuals who have significantly contributed to recycling and sustainability efforts across Florida.

The Recycling Champions Awards spotlight innovative and impactful programs in the areas of waste reduction, water reuse, energy efficiency, environmental stewardship, and recycling infrastructure and market development. Nominations, including self-nominations, are encouraged and welcomed.

Award categories include:

•          Communication and Education
•          Waste Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling
•          Water Reuse and/or Recycling
•          Energy Efficiency
•          Environmental Stewardship
•          Innovation
•          Recycling Infrastructure and Market Development

Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations, large businesses (over 100 employees), small businesses, governmental entities, and educational organizations.

Applications are available on the Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation website at www.flrecycling.org. The deadline for submission is September 5, 2025.

Award recipients will be notified in early October, with presentations scheduled for the Florida Recycles Day event on November 13, 2025.

Last year’s winners included:

•          Collier County’s Preserve Our Paradise: Reduce, Reuse & Recycle – This campaign focused on protecting the natural beauty of Collier County through sustainable waste management practices.
•          Coca-Cola Beverages Florida Closed Loop Recycling Value Assessment – Coke Florida implemented a Recycling Value Assessment in collaboration with Circular Solution Advisers to divert waste from landfills and create a circular economy for materials working with the University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, University of Miami, Zoo Tampa, Tampa Bay Rays and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
•          Desert Wireless Recycling, Inc – Through educational campaigns, community initiatives, and partnerships, Desert Wireless has recycled, repurposed and reused over 500 tons, which equates to roughly 4.5 million pieces of waste to help in keeping our landfills and waterways cleared of dangerous chemicals and hazardous waste since 2006.
•          Goodwill Suncoast and Hillsborough County Solid Waste Management – Select Hillsborough County Community Collection Centers (CCCs) provide a new opportunity through reuse by accepting items for donation via Goodwill Suncoast, saving resources and alleviating disposal capacity. Through this new program, residents can drop off their waste and donations at one convenient location.
•          University of South Florida Stavros Center Sustainability Superheroes Program – This project provides K-12 educators the necessary tools to empower and teach students to use entrepreneurial thinking to find solutions to real-world current sustainability issues.

Judging will be conducted by the faculty and students from Florida Polytechnic University.

The Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation is a coalition of leading Florida businesses and associations dedicated to educating policymakers, business leaders, and the public about the importance and benefits of recycling and how to recycle right.

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