Welcome to Recycle Week!
This week we’re bring you a series of posts in honour of Recycle Week, a national event that takes place every year to help you recycle more.
This year’s theme is ‘recycling around the home’ so we’ll be taking you on a tour of some rooms in your home that you perhaps hadn’t thought were recycling hotspots before!
Before we get started, why not take a quick look back at last year’s Recycle Week, which focused on ‘recycling at home and away’. You can find our post about home and away recycling, as well as more information on recycling electronics and clothing. Hopefully you’ll pick up some hints that will aid you in this year’s Recycle Week!
Recycling Facts and Figures
To kick our week off, we’re going to give you some facts and figures about recycling that should make it clear why we think Recycle Week is so important.
If you know of any facts about recycling that you think everyone should know then head over to twitter and tweet @LocalGreenPts to let us know! We might even include the best ones in our summary post on Friday!
- If everyone in the UK recycled one toothpaste box, it would save enough energy to run a fridge in 2,000 homes for a year.
- If one aluminium air freshener aerosol can was recycled by everyone in the UK, enough energy could be saved to vacuum over 870,000 homes for a year.
- If everyone in the UK recycled one aluminium deodorant aerosol, enough energy could be saved to vacuum over 480,000 homes for a year.
- Plastic bottles can be recycled into footy shirts, fleeces and new plastic bottles.
- It takes 7 days for a recycled newspaper to come back again as newspaper.
- Paper and card can come back as loft insulation.
- Cans and tins can come back as car parts, aeroplane wings and new cans.
- Drinks cans from around the home are recycled into new cans which can be back on the shelves in just 8 weeks.
Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off our tour of the home by looking at what you can recycle in the kitchen!
