Exterminators wins Green Apple Award
The Exterminators (Pvt.) Ltd won an Environmental Leadership Award in the international campaign to find the greenest individuals, companies, councils and communities around the world.
Exterminators competed against more than 800 other nominations in the Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice with its project, Carbon Neutral Pest Control.
Exterminators is the only pest control company in the world to win a Green Apple Award since the award programme begin 24 years ago in 1994.
The award was presented at a glittering presentation ceremony hosted by Liz Kendall MP at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London.
The judges commented, “This Sri Lankan pest control company takes extra steps to minimise the adverse effects of its operations. They focus on avoiding harm to non-target species in their applications and operate as a carbon neutral organisation since 2014 through carbon credits supporting renewable energy projects in developing nations.”
As a result of this Green Apple Award success, it has been invited to have its winning paper published in The Green Book, the leading international work of reference on environmental best practice, so that others around the world can follow its example and learn from its achievement.
It could also progress to represent Sri Lanka in Green World Awards 2019 and Exterminators is part of the United Nations Billion Trees initiative.
The Green Apple Awards are organised by The Green Organisation and supported by the Environment Agency, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, Chartered Institution for Wastes Management, REHIS and other independent bodies.