Tag: Recycle Now

Recycle Now maps UK’s refill destinations

Stuart Mitchell

Recycle Now’s citizen recycling tracker finds huge interest among the public to try packaging-free refill shops and ditch single-use packaging. And to make refill shopping even easier, Recycle Now – in partnership with 6 refill brands – has mapped the locations of hundreds of refill stores throughout the UK from Brighton to Edinburgh. Charting 675 places on the Refill Locator, the online tool shows shops within a 25-mile radius of your postcode and where alternative returnable options are available for home delivery. According to its data, the most refill shops…

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Recycle Week 2024 drives down missed capture as campaign gears up to change recycling behaviours even further in 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Recycle Week, the flagship annual event delivered by Recycle Now for 22 years, returns 22-28 September to collaborate with even more NGO’s, businesses, schools, local authorities and community groups and to inspire even more people to recycle.  Aiming to go beyond awareness-raising and drive citizen behaviour change, the evaluation of last year’s Recycle Week shows that the campaign reached an estimated 7.3 million people. Of these, around 2.9 million indicated they have changed their recycling habits due to the campaign. After Recycle Week 2024, Recycle Now found that the missed capture rate…

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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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