IMC scoops two "Green Oscars"

IMC has received not just one, but two, Rushlight awards for its innovative food waste recycling unit at Imperial College, London.

The unit, known as the "Compod", is a self-contained modular building that houses all of the equipment necessary to recycle into compost the 50 plus tonnes per year of food waste that is produced on Imperial's largest, South Kensington campus. The Rushlight Awards, often referred to as the "Green Oscars", celebrate the technology and innovation achievements of UK organisations in providing new and innovative solutions to address global warming and climate change and represent the pinnacle of industry recognition. These awards stand out as the only UK wide awards for technology, innovation and commerce that have advanced society’s capabilities to live in a sustainable way and are wholly independent, both in the form of the judging and also in the context of not being connected with any particular journal or publication.

Despite competition at its highest level in the Awards' long history, IMC scooped not only the Organic Waste Award but beat off 4 other finalists to win the Waste Innovation Award, in recognition of the most significant achievement in reducing the embedded environmental footprint of resource utilisation.



Collecting the Award at the ceremony on 27 January at which Professor Sir John Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, was guest speaker, Dennis Moore, Business Development Manager at IMC, commented "It is absolutely wonderful to have our food waste recycling solution acknowledged in this way by such a distinguished panel of leading experts. We are looking forward to assisting commercial catering establishments, from hotels and restaurants to hospitals and universities, to address the increasingly difficult, safe disposal of food waste and its diversion from landfill."