Roadshows to help you ‘recycle around the home’

Recycling roadshows are being held across the borough next week to help residents ‘recycle around the home’ and put the ‘right thing in the right bin’.

Officers from Bury Council will be there during National Recycle Week to answer all questions about recycling, and handing out leaflets, compostable liners and kitchen caddies.

They will also be advising people on how to upsize their brown bins – for food and garden waste – and handing out forms to those who want to apply for extra recycling bins.

Residents can recycle around 75% of their household waste using the kerbside recycling service.

Locations:

• Sunday 21 June - Prestwich Carnival (10am-4pm)
• Monday 22 June - Bury Library (11am- 4pm)
• Tuesday 23 June - Morrisons, Whitefield (12-5pm)
• Wednesday 24 June – Mill Gate, Bury (outside Ernest Jones: 9am-5.30pm)
• Thursday 25 June – Tesco, Prestwich (10am-4pm)
• Friday 26 June - Bin tagging across Chesham(6.30am-12pm)
• Sunday 28 June - Bury Agricultural Show (10am-5pm)

The theme of Recycle Week 2015 is “recycling around the home”, to encourage everyone to recycle items that they may never have considered recycling before or knew that they could.

The bathroom – many items can be recycled, fromcardboard toilet roll tubes and toothpaste boxes to plastic shampoo and moisturiser bottles, bleach and bathroom cleaner bottles. Just remember to remove any bottle tops, including pump dispensers. Stat: 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.

The bedroom – recyclable items include tissue boxes, old magazines and deodorant cans. Stat: if everyone in the UK recycled one aluminium deodorant aerosol, enough energy could be saved to vacuum 480,000 homes for a year.

The living room - newspapers, envelopes and cardboard packaging from online orders can be recycled, even air freshener aerosol cans. Stat: If everyone in the UK recycled one aluminium air freshener aerosol can, enough energy could be saved to run a fridge for 91,000 homes for a year.

Councillor Tony Isherwood, cabinet member for the environment, said: “During Recycle Week we want to thank everyone for their recycling efforts.What’s currently recycled makes a huge difference, so just imagine what else could be achieved by recycling those items that are sometimes forgotten. We want people to think a little further than the kitchen and recycle items from other rooms in the home.

“Everything you recycle brings real benefits. It comes back again and again as new stuff, saving resources and helping the environment. Drinks cans from around the home are recycled into new cans which can be back on the shelves in just eight weeks, and plastic bottles can be turned into footy shirts, fleeces and new plastic bottles.”

For more information on recycling, go to www.recyclenow.com.

ENDS

Press release issued: 16 June 2015.