Calling waste management professionals doing exceptional work on delivering top level garden waste services.

After nearly a decade in the garden waste industry, we’ve had the privilege of working with councils across the UK, helping to optimise services with permits and software. Along the way, we’ve seen incredible innovations, dedication, and success stories in garden waste management.

That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the return of The Garden Waste Award 2026 by Permiserv, celebrating the councils and teams delivering outstanding garden waste services.

Last year, we saw Anna-Marie Wicks win the Individual Recognition Award and Hackney Council win ‘Best Run Service’ for delivering excellence in garden waste service management.

Best Run Service Award

Does your team deserve recognition?

If you’ve been working hard to:

✅ Increase subscriptions
✅ Boost tonnage collected
✅ Run effective communication campaigns
✅ Solve service challenges and improve delivery
✅ Provide an exceptional garden waste service

…or anything else that showcases excellence in garden waste management, we want to hear from you!

or perhaps you want to nominate a colleague that has lead the change, transformed a service, or overcome a garden waste servicing challenge:

The Garden Waste Champion Award

Individual recognition/ nominations.

Celebrating the person driving great garden waste services forwards!

Behind every smooth-running garden waste service are the individuals driving their the team’s initiatives, morale, and operations forwards!

A dedicated officer, customer service member, refuse worker, and more – making it happen — from planning and communications to on-the-ground problem solving and resident support.

This award recognises an individual who goes above and beyond to deliver outstanding results for their council and community.

We’re looking for someone who:

✅ Champions innovation and service improvement
✅ Solves challenges with creativity and care
✅ Builds strong relationships with residents, teams or partners
✅ Shows real passion for delivering a top-tier garden waste service

✅ Identifies key troubleshooting issues and provides impactful feedback for service improvements
✅ Makes a measurable difference—big or small

Whether they’ve modernised a sign-up process, handled a rollout flawlessly, or just consistently show up and deliver with excellence, this is their moment to be recognised.

Best Resident Engagement Campaign

Best Resident Engagement Campaign

Great communication is at the heart of every successful garden waste service. Whether it’s encouraging new subscriptions, improving resident understanding, reducing contamination, or supporting service changes, the right campaign can make all the difference.

This award celebrates the council or team that has delivered an outstanding communication campaign to engage residents, influence behaviour, and achieve measurable results.

We’re looking for campaigns that:

✅ Delivered clear, engaging and accessible messaging

✅ Increased participation, subscriptions or resident awareness

✅ Used creative or innovative communication channels and approaches

✅ Demonstrated measurable outcomes and positive impact

✅ Successfully supported a service launch, change or improvement

✅ Put residents at the centre of the campaign, making information easy to understand and act upon

Whether it was a digital campaign, direct mail, social media initiative, behaviour change programme or a multi-channel approach, we want to recognise communications that inspired residents and delivered real results for the community.

Best Newcomer Award

Best Newcomer

Every great garden waste service starts somewhere. This award celebrates councils that have recently launched or significantly expanded their garden waste service and are already making a positive impact for residents and their community.

Whether it’s a brand-new subscription service, a refreshed approach, or a major transformation, we’re looking for councils that have embraced the challenge and hit the ground running.

We’re looking for services that:

✅ Have successfully launched or transformed their garden waste service within the last 18 months

✅ Demonstrate strong planning, implementation and delivery

✅ Have achieved positive early results, such as resident uptake, satisfaction or operational improvements

✅ Show innovation and a commitment to continuous improvement

✅ Have overcome challenges to create a successful and sustainable service

✅ Are building a strong foundation for long-term success

From ambitious new launches to impressive service transformations, this award recognises councils that have made an outstanding start and are setting the standard for the future of garden waste services.

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🏆 The winner will be announced on 16th September at the RWM Expo, in the LARAC Lounge, in association with LARAC. A LARAC executive judges all entries.

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