Recycling: More must be done to build awareness for recycling benefits
More than a quarter of people in the UK do not recognise the direct benefits of recycling, according to a recent survey. The statistics from national recycling campaign Recycle Now reveal that more than half the UK population (54%) wants to find out more about what their recycling gets used for.
Nearly two thirds (64%) agree that their recycled items have a value and can be sold to make new products. Linda Crichton, the head of the Recycle Now Campaign, told Sky News: "We know that a lot of people associate recycling with the kitchen, packaging and food waste that they produce in the kitchen but tend not to think about other rooms in the home.
"The bathroom is a key room: shampoo bottles, bathroom cleaning products bottles - they can all be recycled." Currently in the UK, 44% of plastic bottles do not get recycled. Some of them, along with plastic bags and food packaging, will inevitably end up in the ocean.
It's estimated that eight million tonnes of plastic gets dumped into our rivers, seas and oceans every year. If things continue at this rate, by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our waters.
The Ocean Clean Up is an organisation helping to combat the river plastic entering the world's oceans, they aim to tackle these 1000 most polluting rivers within five years from the commencement of scale-up. For more about their great work click here : https://theoceancleanup.com/sources/.
As a driving force in recycling and innovation, we are a transparent company offering site tours to show public and general customers our Material Recycling Facility and the processes and journeys our customers waste have. From the moment a customers waste leaves their site to the end processes of our MRF ensuring maximised recycle rates of as many waste streams as possible.
If you would like to see more information about what goes on behind the scenes in our MRF or more information about recycling please contact Nicky.Severn@cawleys.co.uk or Conor.Rosling@cawleys.co.uk.