Let’s get real about recycling!
Recycle Week is an annual event designed to celebrate and promote the benefits of recycling. It creates opportunities for us all to implement positive change that will help protect our planet.
Recycle Week runs from 17th to 23rd October and the theme for this year is 'Let's Get Real', which has been chosen to try and challenge perceptions and myths around recycling, and target contamination to improve recycling behaviours.
Often, recycling is mixed with non-recyclable items or items which are recycled in specialist ways. For example, coffee cups cannot be recycled via regular mixed recycling or paper/cardboard recycling, and can only be recycled via a specialist process at a recycling mill with a bespoke pulping process which separates the plastic liner from the paper fibres.
At UHP, we are working hard to increase our recycling rates and have started working with the Multiple Recycling Facility (MRF), based at Chelson Meadow, who will soon be collecting our recycling to be further segregated and sent to be recycled.
A recycling trial will soon be underway in a few departments across the Trust to ensure the correct bins are in place, with posters and sufficient communications to go round to the teams. Once we are happy that all the right messages are in place, this will be rolled out to the rest of the Trust.
However, all staff can start contributing to this now to ensure we are doing all we can to increase the amount we recycle.
This year’s campaign will focus on three common questions that many of us have when it comes to recycling: -
- Does my recycling really make a difference?
- One item in the bin can’t hurt, can it?
- Recycling is so confusing, Isn’t it?
To find out more about Recycle Week visit www.recyclenow.org.uk/RecycleWeek
