Five individuals, organisations, and community groups in Cork have been shortlisted for this year\u2019s Full Circle Awards.<\/p>\n
The awards, in their second year, celebrate the people and the initiatives that help communities across Ireland to reduce waste, reuse resources, and promote more sustainable living.<\/p>\n
The awards recognise impact across six categories: Repair and reuse champion; community circular champion; creative circular design; circular living advocate; best community campaign; and circular sports champion.<\/p>\n
Shortlist<\/p>\n
On this year\u2019s shortlist are five finalists from Cork, whose work spans community campaigns, food-waste prevention, toy reuse, grassroots sport, and creative circular initiatives.<\/p>\n
The Cork finalists include Ladysbridge Tidy Towns, under the best community campaign category for its \u2018Clean like your Granny did\u2019 campaign; Cathy Fitzgibbon, under the circular living advocate category, for helping households become more sustainable; and Giorgia Anile\u2019s \u2018The Toy Library\u2019, recognised under the community circular champion category for the promotion of toy reuse.<\/p>\n
Also recognised in Cork is Bunratty United AFC, under the circular sports champion category, for tackling waste through practical initiatives; and the Cork Community Art Link group in Blackpool, recognised under the creative circular design category, for its work with public projects, such as the Dragon of Shandon.<\/p>\n
Each category winner will receive a \u20ac2,000 prize, along with a handcrafted trophy created from upcycled materials.<\/p>\n
Shortlisted finalists will also benefit from national media exposure, social-media promotion, and features across the Circular.ie platform.<\/p>\n
The winners will be announced in Carlow on September 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five individuals, organisations, and community groups in Cork have been shortlisted for this year\u2019s Full Circle Awards. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1153,246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-622703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-sustainability","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}