A GREEN charity is celebrating after it secured its 100th client and its recycling coordinator was nominated for a top award in the same week.

Sam Taylor, who works for St Nick’s nature reserve, in York, has been nominated for Resource Magazine’s Hot 100 award - a title which recognises individual achievement in the waste and resource industry.

In 2017, Sam came 10th out of 140 nominees, one of only three women making it into the top 10.

This year she faces stiff competition from Blue Planet presenter David Attenborough and celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Meanwhile, in the same week as the award shortlisting, St Nicks also signed up its 100th business customer – Clifford’s Tower, which is managed by English Heritage.

The business collects from a range of small, independent coffee shops and boutiques to all of the York Museum Trust properties and York Minster, as well as national chains such as Toymaster and Wagamama.

It offers a flexible, bespoke service and St Nicks Recycling Team uses electric vehicles and load bearing tricycles to collect recyclable waste so that it can be turned into new products instead of being sent to landfill.

St Nick’s says the low carbon vehicles are quiet, do not contribute to air pollution in York and help combat congestion by taking up less road space than the usual collection lorries.