Spinning Gate in Leigh earns international green accolade

Spinning Gate Shopping Centre earned the international accolade in recognition of its ongoing commitment to sustainability and environmental improvement.

The Green Apple Awards celebrate organisations that demonstrate outstanding environmental efforts and promote best practices globally.

Cleaning team member Pam Evans proudly displaying one of the centres Green Apple Awards (Image: Spinning Gate Shopping Centre)

Karen Cox, centre manager at Spinning Gate Shopping Centre, said: "We are immensely proud of the centre team, our retail partners and our contractors who continue to embrace our environmental journey with us.

"This latest award is testament to all our partners and stakeholders who work hard to ensure we build on our previous achievements.

"Spinning Gate Shopping Centre remain fully committed to building on our previous sustainable successes which has grown from strength to strength, continuing to influence change through our initial core steps: reducing waste volumes, increasing recycling initiatives to reviewing our supply chain, encouraging adoption of our green strategies and longer term approaches with reductions across utilities.

Cleaning Team Leader Sue Sidall, along with cleaning team member Dave Williamson with some of the centres previous Green Apple Awards outside Costa Coffee  (Image: Spinning Gate Shopping Centre)

"We are very much looking forward to future initiatives and celebrating our latest environmental success."

The centre has donated more than 58,000 items to charities in the past year, marking a 154 per cent increase from the previous year.

Since 2017, it has recycled over 270,000kg of cardboard and reduced its overall waste volume by 33 per cent.

Spinning Gate's previous Green Apple Awards (Image: Spinning Gate Shopping Centre)

For the ninth consecutive year, the centre has diverted 100 per cent of its waste from landfill.

It has also reduced energy consumption by 48 per cent and water use by 37 per cent since 2018.

Spinning Gate works with more than 112 charities, donating surplus stock and shop fittings for reuse, resale or redistribution to service users.

Spinning Gate's CSR Awards (Image: Spinning Gate Shopping Centre)

Recent partnerships include a prom-wear appeal with AIM Northwest, which collected formal attire for school leavers.

The centre provided a donation point for the appeal, helping to ensure that all students could take part in their end-of-year celebrations.

Spinning Gate also recently received its third consecutive CSR International CSR Excellence Award.

The Green Apple Awards are organised by The Green Organisation and are open to companies, organisations, communities, and individuals making a positive environmental impact.