Recycle Week 2009

As the UK and the World look further and further into planet sustainability, each individual has the ability to contribute.

Recyclenow.com’s annual event, ‘Recycle Week’ is aimed at helping members of the public and companies to develop ‘green habits’ that can help to reduce waste and increase our recycling activity.

Recycle week in 2009 takes place between June 22nd – 28th. As the official recycle week enters into its fifth year – spokesperson Jane Hall comments ‘Recycle Week is now in its fifth year and this is the first time we’ll be promoting a waste reduction message. As part of this we’re encouraging people to sign up and pledge to either try something new or do more of what we already do.’

Recycle Now’s theme for 2009, ‘lets’ waste less’ aims at raising awareness of the many varying ways in which Joe public can help the environment by using less and recycling more.

To encourage activity people taking part in Recycle Week 2009 can have their name in lights by pledging their efforts online at the Recycle Now website. Such as David in Derby who comments ‘I will recycle bottles and cans while I’m out and about or Judith will make sure that I Hoover the stairs’, Max in Swansea who adds ‘If I don’t recycle bottles and cans while I’m out and about, Johnny should make me prepare meal for 50 people’ and Rae pledges ‘I will use my leftovers for lunch the next day. If I don’t, my friend Rae will make me sit next to my favourite food treat and not eat any’.

Why not participate and pledge to recycle your old mobile phones. By doing so you will raise some cash for yourself and help the environment too. It is estimated that if every household recycled one mobile phone 73,500 tonnes of such harmful waste could be diverted from landfill, which equates to saving in excess of 65,000 tonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide emissions. Which would have the impact of avoiding over 9,500 round the world aeroplane flights.

Recycle today!