Recycle Week 2021

The Climate Emergency affects everyone, and it is something that we can actively do something about, every day, through small but powerful habits - like recycling.

Recycle Week, organised by the charity WRAP, is a great reminder of the power that small actions can make. They are asking the nation to step it up this Recycle Week to help send plastic pollution packing and cut carbon emissions down to size by recycling more of the right things, more often.

Recycling Week is being celebrated between 20 - 26 September this year and WRAP will have more information available on their website about the event from early September.

Earlier in the year the Council announced that the authority collected an extra 5,000 tonnes of recycling during 2020.

Residents recycled 66 per cent more small electrical items and batteries, weighing in at an extra 65 tonnes. While glass recycling went up by 34 per cent, which is a whopping 1,600 tonnes extra. Plastic recycling also went up by 14 per cent, which means an extra 404 tonnes of waste was reused.

At the same time, an extra 1,600 tonnes of cardboard was collected for recycling - an increase of 31 per cent.

Although recycling rates are up, there is still more that can be done and there are lots of tips and guidance about recycling different types of waste:

Residents can find out what they can recycle in their recycle boxes that are collected at the kerbside and what can be taken to local recycling centres.