The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches immediately (15 October) with a warning that households are losing over one billion objects yearly that may very well be recycled. New statistics reveal tens of millions of recyclable bottles, sprays and bathroom roll tubes are dealing with incineration, or landfill (phrases: WRAP).
Britain’s most binned objects embody:
- 845 million cleansing product bottles
- 526 million aerosols
- 7.4 million yoghurt pots
- 6 million aftershave and fragrance bottles
- Bathroom roll tubes
Recent figures show UK recycling charges have fallen. Whereas 9 out of ten folks usually recycle, almost eight out of ten put a number of objects into the bin that may very well be recycled. In 2022, UK households produced 25,691,000 tonnes of waste of which 11,330,000 (44.1%) was recycled.
Right this moment, Recycle Week Ambassador JJ Chalmers, WRAP CEO, Harriet Lamb and a crew of Recycle Week characters take to 10 Downing Road to ship an impassioned letter to Keir Starmer, asking for the PM and the general public’s assist to rescue extra recycling.
Heading the delegation are celeb ambassador JJ Chalmers and WRAP CEO, Harriet Lamb, who will ship the open letter on behalf of the workforce of characters, bringing the marketing campaign to life and asking everybody to Rescue Me – Recycle.
The Recycle Week crew embody Dee Dee the deodorant, Rey the plastic set off spray, Yogi the yoghurt pot, Fitz the fragrance bottle and Hube the bathroom roll tube. Life-size characters have been produced to spotlight the important thing message that recycling helps cut back the environmental prices of the merchandise we purchase. The workforce can be armed with placards, taking their message to Westminster, participating with the general public and visiting London landmarks to unfold their message.
Harriet Lamb, WRAP CEO: “We’re a nation of recyclers with 8 out of 10 UK households usually recycling, however we want to take action far more to rescue objects from the primary garbage! Too usually we’re placing items akin to deodorant cans, yogurt pots or cleansing bottles within the garbage after they can in truth be recycled. The extra objects we rescue from the primary bin, the much less goes to landfill and incineration, the extra we cut back our influence on the local weather.
“This Recycle Week we urge every household, business, school and organisation to help rescue more items from the rubbish bin so that we can achieve a world where ‘landfill’ becomes little more than a memory, where we are recycling everything possible – and of course reducing the amount we use in the first place.”
A passionate environmentalist, JJ Chalmers returns to assist Recycle Week and as soon as once more encourage the nation to rescue extra recycling.
JJ Chalmers, “We will all play our half in tackling local weather change. Recycling at dwelling is an easy solution to get entangled and make an enormous distinction. We have to transfer from a take-make-dispose mannequin to a make, reuse, reuse, reuse method.
“I am working with the Recycle Now team because I really want to encourage people to look at the packaging labels on every item to see if they can rescue and recycle the item. Many more household items can be recycled, and it just takes a second to check.”
Round Economic system Minister Mary Creagh: “With recycling charges falling and over one billion recyclable objects binned yearly, we’ve an enormous job forward to create the zero-waste society all of us wish to see.
“This 12 months’s Recycle Week, we will all do our bit by rescuing extra garbage from the bin and recycling it as a substitute.
“It’s also why this government will move towards a circular economy where we keep our resources in use for longer, waste is reduced, and the path to net zero is accelerated.”
Throughout Recycle Week native authorities throughout England and Northern Eire are internet hosting street exhibits, competitions and plenty of social media exercise the place the general public can get entangled and assist Recycle Week of their space.
Recycling is essential to how the UK will transfer to a zero-waste round economic system. Recycling limits the influence that the objects we purchase have on the atmosphere by preserving current supplies circulating and decreasing the necessity to extract virgin assets akin to fossil fuels and metals.
Recycle Now discovered that whereas 88% of the UK usually recycle, almost eight out of ten of us (79%) put a number of objects into the bin that might have been recycled. So, this small act can have a huge impact. By recycling extra we will cut back the necessity for landfills and incinerators and forestall additional injury to the atmosphere.
