An award-winning waste management programme fine-tuned at a Bristol suburban shopping centre has become a template for other schemes across the UK.
The Willow Brook centre in Bradley Stoke has won a green industry award for the second year running for its advanced waste management system.
Run by property firm Colliers International, the programme has reduced the amount of waste taken to landfill to zero. 
The Willow Brook team won the energy management category of the Sceptre Awards for cutting its carbon output by 80 tonnes.
Mike Bull from Colliers International’s Bristol-based Investment Property Management team said lessons learnt at Bradley Stoke had now been rolled out across the country, along with a programme to shift the company’s national portfolio of managed properties onto green energy at no cost.
He said: “The award of Green Capital of Europe 2015 reinforces Bristol’s status as a local and business community that is fully engaged with sustainability issues.
“There is always more to be done but we’ve made real progress in the past 12 months reducing the impact of the buildings we manage on the environment, as well as addressing the broader longer term issues around sustainability.
“We’re not simply talking about sustainability, or applying it to flagship buildings, but introducing measures across our entire managed portfolio which really make a difference in terms of waste management, energy efficiency, running costs and carbon footprints.
“This reflects our ethos of delivering measurable results that are demonstrably making the difference to our clients, their tenants and the environment.”
