Recycle Week 2024: SSH join the fight.
Sherborne Skip Hire is delighted to join this year’s Recycle Week (14th – 20th October). Celebrating the efforts of the residents from Dorset and Somerset that aid to save five packaging heroes from the rubbish bin.
What is Recycle Week?
Now in its twenty-first year, Recycle Week (organised by Recycle Now) is the UK’s biggest celebration of recycling. Shining a light on the nation’s recycling habits through activities happening across the UK. For Recycle Week 2024, Sherborne Skip Hire joins an urgent crusade to save five packaging heroes from being rubbished and keeping them out of the bin and living the circular life, through recycling.
What the research shows…
The latest Recycle Now research, shows that while we’re a nation of recyclers (nine out of ten people regularly recycle) approximately, eight out of ten of us, (79%) put one or more items into the bin that could have been recycled.
To highlight the plight of the five ill-fated packaging heroes, Recycle Now has created a team of characters to bring the campaign to life.
The condemned containers include Dee-Dee the deodorant, Rey the plastic trigger spray, Yogi the yoghurt pot, Fitz the perfume bottle, and humble Hube – the toilet roll tube. The group will feature on recycling and refuse lorries in parts of the UK, in school education packs and on social media. Life-size characters have been produced to highlight the key message and will feature in media throughout Recycle Week.
To put into perspective the sheer volume of recyclable products that arrive at landfill every year, we have to look at the statistics.
- 7.4 Million yoghurt pots,
- 845 Million cleaning product bottles,
- 6 Million perfume bottles,
- 526 Million aerosols,
- Toilet roll Tubes,
A week of fun activities with a serious message, Rescue Me – Recycle aims to empower people in Dorset and Somerset to look out for these five items missed most often in the weekly recycling collection. Sherborne Skip Hire will be encouraging customers to keep them in circulation by recycling.
Where we come in
Here at Sherborne Skip Hire, we do our best to ensure our skip hire services are as sustainable as possible. We are also regularly revising how we operate and identify areas we can improve and further our commitment to cleaner planet.
A trusted name in the industry with 15 + years of experience. We provide high-quality domestic and commercial skip hire services spanning Dorset. Sherborne Skip Hire delivers efficient and effective waste management solutions. Our team of experts are highly capable and experienced in handling a wide range of waste. Rest assured, we have you covered.
Craig Stephens, Senior Campaign Manager for Recycle Now, said “We are delighted that Sherborne Skip Hire is supporting Recycle Week. While a light-hearted campaign, recycling is essential to limit the impact what we buy has on the environment. Keeping these materials circulating means we can reduce emissions linked with our weekly shop.
Links and tools
A tool to show you where you can recycle certain waste items locally: RecycleNow.com
Statistics reference: Statistics – Recycle Now
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