WRAP’s Recycle Week takes place from 18-24 June and continues
with the overarching theme of 'Recycling – at home and away'. To
accompany this theme, a material focus will highlight the range of
plastic bottles that can be recycled – from the kitchen, to the
bathroom. Recycle Week guides with details of how you can get involved are available on the
Recycle Now website.
To help with your Recycle Week communications, four pieces of editorial
content have been created that can be localised where necessary.
Remember, there is a fantastic range of photographic images in the
photo library to support your Recycle Week communications. Partners in Wales can visit the
Waste Awareness Wales partner site for Welsh-language materials.
Corporate Risk Systems
Head of Environment, Richard Ball comments’ These resources can help
every organisation, sometimes it’s the facts and figures that help to
remind people of why it’s important to change our behaviour when it
comes to waste for example did you know?
- Plastic bottles were first used commercially in 1947.
- 15 million plastic bottles are used in the UK alone every day.
- If
the 15 million bottles used each day were recycled it would be the
equivalent of taking 73,000 cars off the road annually – that’s over
half the number of cars entering London on any week day.
- 90% of
all UK local authorities now offer collection facilities for plastic
bottles either from your kerbside collection scheme or at recycling
centres.
- 1 tonne of plastic bottles saves 1.5 tonnes of carbon being released into the atmosphere.
- It only takes 25-two litre plastic bottles to make an adult-sized fleece.
- Before recycling please rinse your bottles out, squash them and put the top back on.
- Bottle tops can be recycled too (when put back on the bottle).
- You don’t need to remove the labels as this is done as part of the recycling.
- Currently, only 48% of plastic bottles are recycled.
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