Awards
Scottish Green Awards - Best Green Industry Large Business - Winners October 2009
The William Tracey Group were delighted to be presented with the Award for Best Green Industry Large Business after submitting an appilcation outlining outcomes, opportunities and benefits of The William Tracey Groups opertations as well as highlighting areas for others to learn from through experience gained.
Vibes Award – Best Service Award – Winners December 2008
The William Tracey Group was delighted to win VIBES (Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland) Best Service award in December 2008. The awards run by SEPA recognise businesses that employ environmental best practise in their daily activities.
Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Environment, and Scottish Environment Protection Agency Chairman, David Sigsworth presented the awards at the capitals Sheraton Grand Hotel.
Minister for Environment, Michael Russell commented: “Environmentally friendly businesses, such as those recognised by the VIBES awards, have seized the opportunity to turn environmental commitment into action to deliver economic success. VIBES is about rewarding excellence and sharing the lessons learnt from good practice in Scottish business.
“The Scottish Government recognises and encourages such green innovation in businesses. The role which business can play will be essential in meeting our ambitious aims to reduce Scotland’s climate change emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 and to move towards a zero waste society.”
Michael Tracey, Managing Director at Wm Tracey Ltd said “We had great hopes for the VIBES and are extremely pleased to be walking away with an Award. Gaining National recognition for our environmental achievements in the Product & Service category is a great boost for our Company and employees who work very hard towards improving environmental performance, both on our own sites and on our Customers
The state of our environment is a worldwide concern and we are proud to be amongst one of the many companies striving to enforce a change in culture to the Reduce, Re-use and Recycle mentality.”.
Rocco Awards in association with Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce – Best Environmental Performance – Finalist November 2008
Scottish Waste & Resource Awards 2008 in association with Eventful Scotland – Best in Private Sector – Third Place October 2008
Ayrshire Business Awards in association with Scottish Enterprise – Business Growth through Sustainable Development – Finalists 2007/2008
Ayrshire Business Awards in association with Scottish Enterprise – Business Growth through Innovation & Creativity – Winner 2007/2008
Rocco Awards in association with Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce – Excellence in Manufacturing – Winner 2006
- 80% of hazardous waste received at our main Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility is recycled or recovered.
- We were the first company in Scotland to achieve PAS 100 accreditation for compost material.
- 40% of staff employed in the management of hazardous waste are qualified, industrial chemists.
- Our laboratory processes on average 600 samples of hazardous waste per month.