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IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 29 JANUARY 2016

RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES WIN RUSHLIGHT AWARDS 2015-16

Eventure Media presented the Rushlight Awards for the 9th year at a lively Awards Party last night at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London last night. Attended by organizations that are leading the way in clean technology innovation and sustainable solution deployment, investors, advisers, specialist and general media, trade associations and government departments, the party followed the very successful Rushlight Show.

The overall winner was Recycling Technologies who have developed a series of scaled chemical processes to convert residual plastic waste into an ultra-low sulphur hydrocarbon product, which can be used as a petrochemical feedstock, a manufacturing commodity such as paraffin wax or as a fuel, for instance in shipping.

Adrian Griffiths, CEO, Recycling Technologies comments: “We are delighted to have won these awards and to have been recognised by such an important industry body for our work in helping to transform plastic waste into energy. At Recycling Technologies, we are hugely proud of our process and genuinely believe that our work is a key innovation in the field of recycling inorganic material, by creating a highly commercial, distributed solution for a multi-billion pound global problem.”

Clive Hall, Rushlight Awards commented: “Innovation is a key driver for growth across our green economy and beyond, helping us find new ways to manage our environmental footprint, reduce costs and help put our businesses on a more sustainable footing. It’s great to see so many organisations stepping up to this challenge, and I would like to congratulate the winners of the Rushlight Awards on their exciting new ventures.”

The other group category winners were:

1.  Desolenator have developed a household water purifier that uses just solar energy to remove all contaminants from any source of dirty water and turn it into drinking water.

2.  Oxford Advanced Surfaces has developed a chemical surface treatment that promotes the adhesion of polyurethane and epoxy adhesives to difficult-to-bond lightweight materials such as plastics, composites and aluminium which is ideal for the automotive industry.

3.  Bowman Power Group's Electric Turbo Compounding System significantly improves the energy efficiency of reciprocating engines used for power generation by recovering waste energy from the engine exhaust and converting it to free, grid-quality power, resulting in up to 10% additional free power.

4.  Topolytics is a market ready, cloud-based software platform that is designed with the specific purpose of integrating data on emissions, waste and energy, adding context in the form of mapping, narrative, images and documents, then reporting this easily and rapidly.

The complete list of Rushlight Awards winners is set out below:

TheRushlight Award Overall winner: Recycling Technologies
Group categories
Rushlight Natural Energy Award Winner: Desolenator
Rushlight Clean EnergyAward Winner: Oxford Advanced Surfaces
Rushlight Energy Environmental Award Winner: Bowman Power Group
Rushlight Resource Innovation Award Winner:Recycling Technologies
Rushlight Env Management Award Winner: Topolytics
Direct entry categories
Rushlight SolarAward Winner:Desolenator
Rushlight Ground & Air Source Power Award Winner: Ecovision Systems Ltd
Rushlight Powered Transport Award Winner:Oxford Advanced Surfaces
Rushlight Power Gen and Transmission Award Winner:Bowman Power Group
Rushlight Energy Reduction Award Winner:21C Eco Energy Ltd
Rushlight Energy Efficiency Award Winner:Upside Energy Ltd
Rushlight Water Treatment Award Winner: R&W Civil Engineering
Rushlight Water Management Award Winner:Waterblade
Rushlight OrganicResourceAward Winner:Antaco UK Ltd
RushlightResource Recycling Award Winner:Recycling Technologies
Rushlight Sust Manufacturing & Services Award Winner:Cambond Ltd
Rushlight Env Analysis & Metrology Award Winner: Topolytics
Rushlight Sustainability Initiative Award Winner:Solar Options for Schools Ltd

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Contact: Clive Hall 020 8870 9345, 07712 554343

Chief Executive

Rushlight Awards

Now in their 9th year, the Rushlight Awards are a celebration and a promotion of new technology, innovation and best practice across the whole environment spectrum for organisations throughout UK, Ireland and internationally. Designed to highlight innovation, initiatives and the holistic environmental benefit of technologies that are most likely to or are already creating a stir in the market, they are a means of disseminating the successes to support further development.

Judges:

The judging was performed by an independent panel of recognized experts covering all the clean technology sectors drawn from academia, trade associations and institutes, independent experts and government departments. In particular, the judges included individuals whose full or part-time roles extend to representing DECC, Chatham House, WRAP, Carbon Trust, UKERC, Innovate UK, STFC, The Knowledge Transfer Network, PERA Technology, the Crown Estate and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles. One of the unique attributes of the Rushlight Awards is the fact that the judges are entirely independent of Eventure Media.

Eventure Media Ltd

Eventure Media launched the Rushlight Awards in 2007 and the event has gained a substantial following. As the only awards for technology developers and innovation across the whole cleantech spectrum, it has attracted the interest of companies both large and small which are leading the development of renewable energy, clean fuels, power generation, energy efficiency, sustainable products, services and agriculture, water, waste and pollution management in the UK, Ireland and internationally. In addition to the Rushlight Awards, Eventure Media runs the Rushlight Show, a range of evening Rushlight Briefings, Investor Briefings in association with Forbury Investment Network and the London Cleantech Cluster. The company also provides incubation services to early stage companies developing new clean technologies.

www.rushlightevents.com

www.londoncleantechcluster.co.uk

Recycling Technologies

Recycling Technologies was formed in 2011 to commercialise the development of the plastic recycling technique established originally by the University of Warwick. Some of the UK’s leading experts on plastics, waste management and engineering processes make up the Recycling Technologies team today, providing direction and delivery for the business. The company offers innovative solutions to help customers achieve financial gains through turning residual plastic waste into a valuable resource. Its flagship machine, the RT7000, converts unsorted residual plastic waste – that is currently disposed of in landfill or incinerators – into a valuable low sulphur hydrocarbon known as Plaxx™.