Torfaen Council mascot Dan Can the Super Recycler beat off competition from around the UK to win two national public relations awards.
Dan won Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Excellence in Communications awards.
He came on top in two categories - best design and photography and PR on a shoestring- competing against a host of councils including Essex, Blackpool, Dudley, Falkirk, Somerset and London Borough of Camden.
On the same night, Dan also won two silver awards for best use of photography or design and community relations at the CIPR's Cymru Wales PRide Awards.
Co creators communications officer Ben Payne and graphic designer Paul Evens said they were delighted to receive the awards.
"We are still pinching ourselves as we were up against some really huge competition," they said. "We're so proud of Dan Can and everything he's achieved - it doesn't get much better than this."
The latest success follows a Chartered Institute of Marketing award for Dan in 2008.
Councillor John Cunningham, Executive Member for Operational Services, said: "Local residents really relate to Dan Can and I'm delighted he has won some more awards."
Chair of the CIPR Local Public Services Group, Ashley Wilcox added: "This is a fantastic achievement and I congratulate Torfaen Council on their success."
Since his launch 18 months ago, Dan has helped Torfaen become the best recycling authority in South Wales- recycling 45 per cent of its waste.
The mascot and his slogan, recycle- if Dan Can you can, now feature on the Council website, leaflets, comic strips and on the back of recycling lorries.
Three local residents have also joined forces with him to become recycling super heroes.
And Dan also regularly tweets on Twitter with Terminator actor Arnold Schwarzenegger being one of his 200 followers
To read Dan's tweets visit twitter.com/superrecycler|
For more information about recycling in Torfaen visit the Rubbish, Waste and Recycling| area of the website.