Recycle Week June 2nd - June 8th

This week (June 2nd – June 8th) is Recycle Week.
The aim of Recycle Week is to show people how they can cut down on the amount of rubbish they send to landfill and improve the amount they recycle.

The event highlights the many ways in which waste can now be recycled.

The Recycle Week survey shows that nearly two thirds (62%) of consumers said that they always remembered to recycle items from their kitchen, yet only a third of waste found in other areas of the home, such as the bathroom (36%) and bedroom (34%).

The research also showed that 59% of people focused on recycling cans, plastic drinks bottles, glass bottles, paper and card. Over a quarter (26%) were unaware that items such as aerosols, plastic detergent bottles, magazines and biscuit and sweet tins could often be recycled*

If every household in England recycled 'one more thing', the total amount collected for recycling could increase by more than three quarters of a million tonnes and could potentially raise the national recycling rate by up to 3%.

*(Statistics taken from WRAP as part of Recycle week 2008 campaign June 2008)

More details at www.wrap.org.uk