Winner Tees Valley

The firm won international recognition during 2009 for it's world-leading role in widening the reuse of recycled plastics. 

It continues to expand and has created a further 12 jobs.  Greenstar WES was the first company in the world to commercially produce food-grade high-density polythene plastic flakes from recycled plastic milk bottles by developing a process unique at the time, and which in only now being used elsewhere in the industry.

Having undergone the most stringent testing, this flake is used as recycled content in manufacturing new plastic milk bottles, plastic food trays for supermarket use, and cosmetic containers.