The 2024 deadline to enter has passed.

Winners were announced on Wednesday, May 29th during the MWA Spring Workshop.

Full List of Winners can be found here.

Submission information for the 2025 P&E Awards will be available early 2025.

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Welcome to the 2024 Promotion and 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 2023, 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 two streams based on municipality size:

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

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

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

Community Engagement and Outreach Program: This award recognizes a municipality for its approach to community engagement and outreach in 2023 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 one stream for all municipalities. 

"Surprise Us": This award recognizes a promotion and education project that is innovative and unique and does not fit within any of the above categories. This category has one stream for all municipalities. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Submissions must be campaigns, tools, strategies, events, or programs used between January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. 
• 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 (1) submission per award municipality, per category. 
• 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 2024 Spring Workshop on May 29th. 
• Winners may be asked to present their success stories and tips to MWA members at a later date in 2024. 
• If you have any questions about this process, please contact John Watson, Chair P&E Committee (jwatson@dysartetal.ca) or Katrina McGuire, MWA liaison to the P&E Committee (katrina@municipalwaste.ca)
• Must be an MWA Member Municipality in good standing to be eligible. 
• 2023 Award Winners
  

DEADLINE

The deadline is Friday, April 12, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.

SUBMISSION FORMS

• Campaign 
• Print Tool
• Social Media & Online Strategy
• Special Event 
• Community Engagement and Outreach Program
• "Surprise Us"

The view a list of the questions from any of the categories, please reach out to katrina@municipalwaste.ca

2023's P&E Awards' Recipients