MBA Polymers wins award

Gary Claypole accepts award during 5th Annual Responsible Business Awards program.

MBA Polymers, a plastics recycling and technology company headquartered in Nottinghamshire, U.K., has won the Best Small-/Medium-size company (SME) award at the 5th Annual Responsible Business Awards. The award winners were announced Sept. 30, 2014.

Businesses competed for a range of categories such as Best Employee Engagement Programme, Best Private Company, Best Supplier Engagement, Best B2B Partnership, Best Sustainability Report, Best Business /NGO Relationship, Best Consumer Engagement of the Year and Best CEO of the Year.

The panel of judges for the awards was led by Professor David Grayson, director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University. Other members of the judging panel included Karen Hamilton, vice president, Global Sustainable Business, Unilever plc; Fran Leedham, head of environment and sustainability, Jaguar Land Rover; Christine Diamente, head of brand and corporate sustainability, Alcatel-Lucent; and Karen Hamilton, vice president of global sustainable business, Unilever plc.

The Best SME award goes to the company with under 250 employees that has clearly innovated on sustainability in 2014 and created products or services with a clear social/environmental gain alongside a business case.

MBA provides a sustainable and consistent supply of high-quality post-consumer recycled plastics, while reducing the flow of scrap plastics to landfill or incineration.

MBA’s Sales Director Gary Claypole, who received the award on behalf of the plastics recycler, said, “This is a terrific recognition of what we are doing and is an award for every one of the MBA employees who are working hard to achieve recognition for recycled plastics. Our thanks to the Ethical Corporation for arranging the event.”

Claypole will be a guest speaker at the upcoming Plastics Recycling Conference Europe, which is set for Oct. 29-30 in Milan.