Recipharm Environmental Award

Since Recipharm was founded in 1995, our environmental agenda has been a central part of the way we do business. It is our belief that transparency, cooperation and encouragement are necessary if we are to achieve sustainable development. In order to promote this belief, we introduced during 2008 an international environmental award for the best environmental practice or innovation within the pharmacy and health care industries or academia.

Purpose of the Award

• To encourage and inspire best practice and innovation
• To promote good examples
• To encourage environmental dialog within the pharmaceutical industry 

Criteria of the Award

Individuals

Someone that either has

• successfully proven to have had a major impact on his/her own, or to other organisations general attitude and commitment to environmental matters and thereby to a high degree changed the organisations direction into a strong comittment for environmental management or,
• through his/her academic research and work, and by well respected published articles, litterature or public appearance, given highly recognised and new important insight and knowledge in the environmental field in the striving towards sustainable development.

Organisations

An organisation within the healthcare industry with a highly recognised work that through its mission, practical day to day activities and general way of operating have created a new and higher standard within environmental management field and thereby inspired others to follow.

The Award

The award is a monitory award of 30,000 SEK, a glass award and a diploma. The award is presented annually.