BRITISH RECYCLING INNOVATOR SCOOPS TOP AWARD

An innovative British company has won a prestigious recycling award - just three months after launching.

Vertal opened its first hi-tech food waste processing plant in Mitcham, South London early in 2010.

Now its innovative design has won in the Innovation in Design of a Waste Management Facility category at letsrecycle.com’s prestigious Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management.

Each year, Vertal will divert around 100,000 tonnes of London’s food waste from landfill, transforming it instead into a rich agricultural fertiliser to grow new crops.