Yorwaste in Action - Photo Competition (Winter 2024-2025)

Thank you all for participating!

Yellow-and-black van parked beside a wet rural road, bearing the text "orsafety" on its side; rolling grassy moorland and distant flat-topped hills stretch beneath a vast, cloudy sky.

Champion: James Light

(Senior HSE Advisor)

Vivid purple-pink sunset sky glows above silhouetted bare trees, reflecting on a wet, empty parking lot with industrial bins and a low warehouse in the background; pavement markings read ONE WAY; signs show 3 4 5 6.

First Runner-Up: Beth Cameron

(HWRC Operative, Seamer Carr)

A small robin walks across gravel near a low step in a fenced yard with a blue skip, red barrier and piled snow; visible text: "plasterboard" (on box) and "STOP" (on sign).

Second Runner-Up: Sian England

(HWRC Operative, Ripon)

Steam locomotive 44806 passes a level crossing while a parked Yorwaste truck (Tel: 0845 3008889, www.yorwaste.co.uk) waits on a muddy lane beside hedgerow and leafless trees.

Tony Cain

(Loader, Harewood Whin)

A white Yorwaste van (text: "yorwaste", "www.yorwaste.co.uk", "CADDY") is parked on a snowy roadside at sunrise, facing a wide, frost-covered rural landscape under a clear sky.

Debbie Swindells

(Area Supervisor Transfer MRF Compost • Operations)

Hole of Horcrum

Excavator arm lifts debris from a wood-and-rubble pile at night, its worksite lit by amber and blue lights reflecting on wet ground under a dark red sky. Text: "yorwaste", "VOLVO".

Darren Moss

(Team Leader, Seamer Carr Transfer Station)

Red Sky in the Morning, Shepherd’s Warning

Two discarded Christmas trees lie on snowy ground beside a blue waste container in an overcast outdoor lot with leafless trees; text on container reads "orwaste" (additional small text illegible).

Karen Green

(HR Advisor)

Sad Unloved Christmas Trees at Harewood

Special thanks to Karen for going the extra mile and written a poem for the photo!

Two little trees, both bent and low,
Their branches bare, no lights to show.
The first one sighed, “I once had a star,
Now I’m just waiting, not going far.”

The second wept, “I used to gleam,
But now I’m lost in a winter dream.”
No tinsel, no lights to make me bright,
Just shadows and stillness in the silent night.

So someone please tell me why,
We have been left out here to die,
We shone bright for Christmas Day
You loved us then so this I’ll say,
Next time please recycle me,
Or buy yourselves a paper tree.

A white-and-blue waste truck waits beside blue recycling containers, the truck stationary on a slushy, snow-covered driveway at a recycling centre lined by tall bare trees; visible text: "waste" on truck and "Household Waste Recycling Centre" on sign.

Lynsey Birch

(Transport Supervisor)

Lynsey expresses her thanks to the drivers!

On Sunday 6^th January many of the HWRC sites across North Yorkshire were unable to open due to snowy conditions.

Our drivers however managed to battle themselves through these weather conditions to make sure the job got done to make sure the HWRC sites were cleared for when they were able to reopen!