The James Sumner Award is a bursary of up to £1000 to fund the expenses of a Student, Graduate or Licentiate Member of the Institution attending a major international waste management conference.
Recent previous winners have travelled to Portugal, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Netherlands, Sardinia, Argentina, New York and Australia.

2011 Winner Gwyndaf Parry with CIWM President Derek Greedy
If you would like to apply for this award, please download the
James Sumner Award Application Form
Entries can be submitted at any point during the year. However, for your entry to be considered for this year's award, the deadline 1st June.
Hall of Fame
2011- Gwyndaf Perry International Conference, Guimares,Portugal
2010 - Joe Kingston
ISWA World Congress
2010, Hamburg
2009 - Irina Arakelyan
ISWA/DAKOFA Waste & Climate Conference, Copenhagen
2008 - Elizabeth Rhodes
ORBIT 2008 Conference, Wageningen, Netherlands
2007 - Victoria Bond
Sardinia Symposium
2006 - Lucy Thomas
ISWA World Congress, Amsterdam
2005 - Sarah Evans
ISWA World Congress, Argentina
2004 - Melanie Chilton
International conference of the New York Solid Waste Association