Application period for 2025 P&E Awards is now closed.

Full List of the 2025 P&E Awards Winners can be found here.

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Welcome to the 2025 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 2024, 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 2024 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, 2024 to December 31, 2024. 
• 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 category, per municipality. 
• Submissions must achieve a score of at least 25 pts (or 50% and above) 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 2025 Spring Workshop on May 28th. 
• The application is evaluated on 1) Planning and Implementation (max. 30 pts), 2) Effectiveness (max. 20 pts), 3) Reflection and Sharing (no direct points), and 4) Bonus Points (max. 14 pts).
• Winners may be asked to present their success stories and tips to MWA members at a later date in 2025. 
• 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. 
  

DEADLINE

Please note that the deadline has passed. Thank you to all who have applied! 

SUBMISSION FORMS

Important Update for Returning Applicants

We’ve updated the application process for this year’s Annual Awards event! If you’ve applied in the past, please take a moment to carefully review the new application guidelines before getting started. If you plan to use an application template (such as the Word document you've created from past submission years), make sure it reflects the updated questions and evaluation matrix. These changes are essential for a smooth and accurate submission. Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to your application!

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

You can request a list of the questions for any of the categories before starting your application. Please reach out to katrina@municipalwaste.ca

2025's P&E Awards' Recipients