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2023 P&E Awards


Welcome to the 2023 Promotion & Education (P&E) Awards! We are excited to receive and review your submissions.


The annual P&E Awards program is a way for us to celebrate the creativity and ingenuity of our colleagues in Promotion & Education. If your municipality launched an innovative campaign, tool, strategy, event, or program that engaged residents in waste diversion in 2022, it could be eligible for an award.

Please see the award categories and submission guidelines below. Good luck!


Awards Categories
Campaign: This award recognizes a waste management promotion and education campaign that uses a number of different communication tools to inform, educate and motivate residents. This category has 2 streams based on municipality size:

  • Large Municipality (50,001 households or more)
  • Small Municipality (50,000 households or less)

Print Tool: This award recognizes a promotion and education tool that appears in printed form (booklet, brochure, calendar, newsletter, pamphlet, poster, print advertisement, etc.) that is new and innovative to your municipality and that others can learn from. This category has 1 stream for all municipalities.

Social Media & Online Strategy: This award recognizes a buzz-worthy social media or online strategy (e.g. online advertisement, social media campaign, interactive website). We are looking for submissions that go beyond third-party tools and reminder apps. Show us something new, unique, and innovative. This category has 1 stream for all municipalities.

Special Event: This award recognizes a municipality’s organization of or participation in a special community event (e.g. Repair Cafes, Reuse Days, Ribfest) that directly reduced or diverted waste in a significant way. This category has 1 stream for all municipalities.

Community Engagement and Outreach Program: This award recognizes a municipality for its approach to community engagement and outreach in 2021 relating to waste management. The approach is meaningful, inclusive, and impactful. Examples could include a combination of webinars, workshops, surveys, booths, or other community engagement and outreach programs. This category has 1 stream for all municipalities.

“Surprise Us” Category: This award recognizes a P&E project that is innovative and unique and does not fit within any of the above categories. This category has 1 stream for all municipalities.

Submission Guidelines
  • Submissions must be campaigns, tools, strategies, events, or programs used between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022.
  • All submissions must be entered online via each category's submission form.
  • Submissions could be related to any municipal waste management or diversion program, project or event, including but not limited to recycling, organics, household hazardous waste, user-pay or bag limits, public strategic planning sessions, etc.
  • Maximum of one submission per award category, per municipality.
  • Submissions must achieve a score of at least 45 to be eligible for an award; as a result, Gold, Silver, and Bronze may not be awarded in each category.
  • Winners will be announced and the awards will be presented in-person & streamed online during the MWA 2023 Spring Workshop on May 17th.
  • Winners may be asked to present their success stories and tips to MWA members at later date in 2022.

Deadline
The deadline is April 14th, 2023 @ 11:59 PM

Submission Forms