Tag: Recycle Now

NEW data show’s Northern Ireland households are throwing out food they could eat.

Stuart Mitchell

A new campaign launching today in Northern Ireland is encouraging all householders to eat the food they buy and recycle any inedible by utilising their food waste caddies. The campaign, spearheaded by Recycle Now in partnership with DAERA, wants to make people aware of the huge benefits of  not wasting food and recycling the inedible parts by using these bins, instead of putting food waste into their general rubbish bins. 30% of the average Northern Irish rubbish bin is still made up of food, most of which could have been…

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JJ Chalmers launches nationwide campaign to bag one of the ‘last plastics’ in our bins

Stuart Mitchell

Recycle Now and Clear on Plastics are proud to work with TV presenter JJ Chalmers on a NEW plastics recycling campaign – Repeat the Cycle – designed to tackle one of the ‘last plastics’ in our bins. The campaign is addressing a common problem experienced across the UK – the thousands of tonnes of plastic bags and wrapping which are not currently collected for recycling at kerbside and are lost to landfill. With more than 84% of local authorities collecting plastic bottles, tubs, pots and trays at kerbside for many…

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One simple message on pack could drive up recycling rates

Stuart Mitchell

Recycle Now, the citizen campaign delivered by environmental charity WRAP, believes trials it conducted with Boots and Radox using on-pack messaging to encourage recycling could drive up plastic recycling in millions of households, and help nudge up the UK’s flagging recycling rate. From trials undertaken with both retailer and manufacturer using plastic bathroom bottles, Recycle Now found that the addition of a simply worded prompt to recycle on front of bottle resulted in a significant rise in recycling. This showed a 91% recycling rate for those who received a bottle with…

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Collections of plastic bags and wrapping to go nationwide, via a supermarket near you

Stuart Mitchell

By the end of the year, a much larger proportion of the population will be able to take all types of plastic bags and wrapping into their local supermarkets to be collected for sorting and recycling, including items like salad bags, crisp packets, biscuit wrappers, bread bags and frozen food bags. Currently, while many supermarkets provide front of store recycling points for carrier bags and other bags made of the same plastic (polythene), there is confusion among citizens about whether flexible plastic packaging can be recycled, and what their options…

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Recycle Now hits new heights with best ever Recycle Week results

Stuart Mitchell

This year Recycle Now tapped into the cultural shift of citizens’ new-found respect for the planet, acquired during lockdown.  By harnessing the mood of the nation, it achieved an incredible 26 million digital impressions and a whopping 185 million opportunities to see, hear or read about Recycle Week through PR – up from 22 million and 59 million respectively last year. Under the strapline ‘Together, We Recycle’, the campaign thanked the nation –for continuing to recycle, despite all that has happened this year. For the first time ever Recycle Now…

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