The company won ‘Most Innovative Environmentally-Friendly Project” in Belgium.
Recyca’s representatives and the award
Recyca was awarded on 18 June at the FEBEM Awards 2015, with FEBEM-FEGE the Belgian federation of environmental companies including those focused on soil cleansing and those that “collect, sort, treat, recycle or process waste”. The company won ‘Most Innovative Environmentally-Friendly Project’ for its ‘Family Box’, which was said to be the “most innovative idea to contribute to an effective and environmentally-friendly way of collecting (small) electronic waste”.
There were 30 nominees in total, and the award was presented to Recyca representatives Kris Jacobs and Tom Nuyts at the ceremony. The ‘Family Box’ was created by the company to “collect obsolete electronic waste” from Belgian households, with Recyca encouraging consumers to get their families and acquaintances to “collect as much e-waste as possible”, as “the more they collect the higher the compensation”.
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The compensation for recycling e-waste would then benefit a “club, school or organisation” at which the boxes were based, with Recyca adding that “in our fast-paced society and with lots of responsibilities, we often forget how [much] small electronic equipment we gather along the way and through the years”. The boxes allow for products to be collected, and Recyca collects full boxes “at a central point within a short but reasonable timeframe”.
The company added that it is “needless to say that besides the financial compensation, this so-called ‘urban mining’ also benefits the environment substantially”.